People
| Joana Matos Dias has a BSc in Computers Engineering (1996), a MSc in Operations Research (2000), a MSc in Quantitative Finance (2011) and a PhD in Management Science (2006). She has obtained Habilitation in 2017. She is an Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra, where she has been responsible for several course units like logistics, operations research, modeling in management, simulation. She is also a researcher at Inesc-Coimbra. Her main research interest is decision making models and algorithms in general, and operations research applied to health problems, combinatorial optimization, location problems in particular. She is author or co-author of two books, more than 70 papers in refereed international journals, conference proceeding and book chapters. Personal homepage |
| Humberto Rocha is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra and Researcher at CeBER and Inesc-Coimbra Research Centers. He received both his bachelor and master degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Coimbra in 1998 and 2001, respectively. In 2005, he completed a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at Old Dominion University (ODU) and NASA Langley Research Center, both in Virginia, USA. He received a medical degree from the University of Minho in 2015. His research centers on applications in physics, inverse engineering, aeronautics, medicine, and recently economics. This multidisciplinary approach lead to publications in a variety of journals of different areas, including Journal of aircraft, Medical Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Physica Medica, Physica A. Most of his publications are in top journals of his area (Applied Mathematics/Operations Research), including SIAM Journal on Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, International Transactions of Operations Research. |
| Maria do Carmo Lopes is Head of the Medical Physics Department of the Portuguese Institut of Oncology in Coimbra (IPOCFG, E.P.E.), with 20 years experience in Medical Physics with special interest in Radiotherapy. She has been invited Associated Professor at Aveiro University (I3N, Physics Dept.) since 2008. Her PhD. was obtained in 1991, in Radiation Physics at Coimbra University. She has been deeply involved in the clinical development of new techniques in Radiotherapy, like radiosurgery, stereotactic radiotherapy and IMRT. She has coordinated many education and training activities, namely Radiation Protection Courses for different health care professionals, in the Centre of Permanent Professional Development at IPOC and she has collaborated with different universities in graduation and post-graduation programs. She has been the Coordinator of the Medical Physics Division of the Portuguese Physics Society and the National Member Officer of the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) during the period 2005-2012. She was member of the Physics Committee of ESTRO in 2005-2011. She was the Chair of the Education and Training Committee in the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) during the last term 2009-2012. She is presently member of the Scientific Committee at EFOMP and of the Education and Training Committee at IOMP. She is active in various national and international research projects, namely with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). |
| Tiago Ventura is a physicist at the Medical Physics Department of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology Francisco Gentil in Coimbra (IPOCFG, EPE) since 2007. He has completed his degree in Physics Engineering at University of Aveiro in 2007 and was awarded with the prize for the best graduating student of Physics Engineering of the year. His main field of interests covers the development of tools for quality assurance in radiation therapy and the implementation of new sophisticated techniques such as Radiosurgery, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic radiotherapy. Presently is doing his PhD in Physics Engineering at University of Aveiro. His research project is in the field of clinical implementation of gantry angle optimization, evaluation of physical and biological objective functions and plan evaluation. |
| Maria João Alves received a degree in Computers Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra in 1989 and a PhD in Management (speciality Operational Research) from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC). She is Assistant Professor at FEUC and co-coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Management – Decision Aiding Science. She is also a researcher at the INESC Coimbra and CeBER R&D institutes. Her research activities are mainly developed in multiobjective optimization, in particular multiobjective linear, mixed-integer, fractional and bilevel programming. Her interests include exact methods and metaheuristics (evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization), applications and decision support systems. She is co-author of scientific papers published in several international journals (such as, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, Applied Mathematics and Computation, among others), an article in the Encyclopaedia of Optimization, one book in Portuguese (2003) and a book of the series “Euro Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research”, entitled Multiobjective Linear and Integer Programming, Springer, 2016. |
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| Brigida da Costa Ferreira is assistant professor at the School of Health of Porto Polytechnic and researcher at I3N (Physics Department from Aveiro University) and INESCC. She graduated in Technological Physics at the Science Faculty of Lisbon University and did her PhD in Medical Radiation Physics at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University. Her postdoc was done at Aveiro University and at the Medical Physics Department of IPOCFG that aimed to implement IMRT for head and neck tumours and Stereotactic IMRT for brain lesions. Under the program CIENCIA2008, her research project involved the development of the electronic health information system RESPONSE aiming to collect clinical patient data for radiobiological studies. Her research work was published in international journals like Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology, Physics Medicine and Biology, Acta Oncologica, Physica Medica (awarded best paper 2006-2007), etc. Some of her main interests are: dose-response modelling, evaluation of the efficacy of radiation therapy, radiobiological optimization, advanced radiation therapy techniques. |
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| Luis C. Dias obtained a degree in Informatics in 1992, a Ph.D. in Management in 2001, and Habilitation in Decision Aiding Science in 2013, from the University of Coimbra. He is currently Associate Professor and Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC), where he has been teaching courses on decision analysis, operations research, informatics, and related areas, and has supervised 10 PhD students. He is a former (co)coordinator of the Master's in Management and the PhD in Sustainable Energy Systems. He held temporary invited positions at the University Paris-Dauphine, France, and the University of Vienna, Austria. Luis is the Director of the Centre for Business and Economics Research at U. Coimbra (CeBER), a collaborator at INESC Coimbra, a member of the coordination board of U.Coimbra’s Energy for Sustainability Initiative, and currently a Vice-President of APDIO, the Portuguese Operational Research Society. He is on the Editorial Board of the EURO Journal on Decision Processes and Omega, and also contributes to the community as evaluator of grants (Academy of Finland, Cyprus’s Research Promotion Foundation, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Poland's National Science Centre) and PhD theses (Univ. of Adelaide, Australia; Aalto Univ. and Univ. of Jyväskylä, Finland; Univ. Lisbon and Porto, Portugal; Univ. du Luxembourg; Univ. Politec. Madrid and Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Univ. Vienna, Austria; Univ Warwick, UK). He has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, in journals such as Computers & Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems, European J. of Operational Research and Omega (in the management science / operations research area) as well as Applied Energy, Energy Policy, Environmental Science & Technology, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Journal of Cleaner Production (in the energy and environment area), with over 1000 citations both in Scopus and Web of Science. |
| Pedro Carrasqueira has a BsC in Applied Mathematics, University of Coimbra (1998); Master in Computational Mathematics, University of Minho (2002) and a PhD in Management – Decision Support Science, University of Coimbra (2017) His main areas of research are optimization, namely single, multiobjective and bilevel optimization; and, data analysis and modeling At INESC Coimbra Pedro Carrasqueira is developing optimization algorithms, including metaheuristics, to solve problems in the field of intensity-modulated radiotherapy treatment planning, namely concerning volumetric arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning Before, Pedro Carrasqueira was also performing data analysis and remote sensing applied to forest inventory and modeling to support decisions in sustainable forest management, within a pulp and paper manufactory company Pedro Carrasqueira was assistant professor for 15 years at undergraduate level in Public Polytechnic Institutions. |
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| Ben Heijmen obtained his PhD in 1988 at the department of Molecular and Laser Physics at the University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and moved to Erasmus MC, in Rotherdam, where he was resident in medical physics in radiotherapy from 1988 to 1992. Since then he has been faculty member/medical physicist at the department of Radiation Oncology, working group leader of Erasmus Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine and head of division of Medical Physics (2006-2015). He has been full professor of Radiation Oncology Physics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, since 2005. His current research projects are in the areas of automated treatment plan generation, computer optimization of (non-coplanar) beam angles, image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), adaptive radiotherapy (ART), stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) with the Cyberknife robotic treatment unit, proton therapy, and development of procedures and software for enhancement of patient safety, including electronic portal imaging (EPID) based in-vivo dosimetry. He has been very active at ESTRO as member of the Education Council of ESTRO since 2016, member of the ESTRO Physics Committee (2008-2019), teacher and director of different ESTRO Physics training courses, or member of the Editorial Board of “Radiotherapy and Oncology” (Green Journal). In 2017 he was awarded with the Emmanuel van der Schueren Award of ESTRO as “… a recognition of the excellence of your scientific work and of the enormous contribution you have made within ESTRO, in the field of education and in the promotion of radiation oncology as a discipline. |
| David Craft received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT in 2004. Since then he has worked as a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital. He broadly works in the area of optimizing cancer treatment. Specific projects over the years include multi-criteria radiation therapy optimization, volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), prediction and machine learning of complex systems, cancer genomics, and immunotherapy. In his spare time he enjoys playing music, foraging for wild edible plants, and cycling. |
| Uwe Oelfke began his career in
Theoretical Nuclear Physics, gaining his PhD at the University of
Hanover in 1990 and then moving to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory
for particle and nuclear physics. Here he worked as a Post Doc,
initially with the Nuclear Theory group and then moved to the Batho
Biomedical Facility as a Research Associate, looking at Proton &
Pion Therapy . At this stage he transferred from Nuclear to Medical
Physics. |
| Dionne Aleman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida (2007), MSc from the University of Florida (2006), and BSc from the University of Florida (2003). Dr. Aleman's research focuses on the application of operations research to medical and healthcare systems to improve the quality, timeliness, and efficiency of care. This research includes using optimization, simulation, machine learning, and graph theory to design and validate radiation therapy treatment plans, to predict and mitigate the spread of pandemic diseases in urban populations, to improve hospital surgical scheduling, and to optimize organ transplant matches and multi-person chains. Dr. Aleman has held grants from NSERC, CFI, ORF, and NSF for her research. She is a two-term past President of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), as well as a past Vice President and Secretary of CORS Council, and a past Secretary of the CORS Health Care Operations Research Special Interest Group. Within the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), she currently serves on the Committee for Teaching and Learning, and has previously served as Chair of the Health Applications Society (HAS), President of the Public Sector OR Section (PSOR), President of the Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG), and TutORials co-chair. Dr. Aleman is also a Topical Editor for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Associate Editor for IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, Associate Editor for the International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining, and Editorial Board Member of Operations Research in Health Care. |
