Team

Principal Investigator: Ana María Anaya-Arenas

Industrial engineer with a Ph. D. in administration science, Ana María is mainly concerned about the planning, design and optimisation of the logistic network and distribution decisions in the contexts of humanitarian and healthcare logistics. Her latest work focuses in fairness in distribution as well as efficient modelling and resolution approaches for the biomedical sample transportation problem, inspired from real-life distribution challenges.

Janosch Ortmann

Professor, UQAM

Janosch is an associate professor in business analytics and data science at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). His main research interest lies in the analysis of decision making under uncertainty, particularly using techniques from machine learning, probability theory and operations research. Currently, he is working on applications such as the design of transport networks, humanitarian logistics and computational biology.

Yasmina Maïzi

Professor, UQAM

Industrial engineer with a PhD in industrial engineering, Yasmina is interested in modeling complex systems and addressing their inherent problems by designing decision support tools based on hybrid simulation approaches. She is interested in the evaluation of the impact of using innovative technologies in different operational systems and more particularly in healthcare system. Her recent research focuses on the design of digital twins and their integration into the healthcare system.

Juan Carlos Rivera

Professor, EAFIT

Juan Carlos is Industrial engineer with a MSc in Informatics and a Ph. D. in Systems Optimization and Security. His main interests are related to the solution of real life challenging optimization problems, and efficiency improvement of solution methods for complex combinatorial optimization problems. His more recent works are applied to public massive transportation, public resources allocation (financial, medical, and educational) and distribution networks.

María Eugenia Puerta Yepes

Professor, EAFIT

Mathematician and PhD. in Mathematical Sciences, María is a professor of mathematics at EAFIT University in Colombia. Her current research work focuses on modelling the uncertainty of health information, specifically in epidemiology and radiotherapy treatments for cancer. One of her latest works focused on the construction of a web platform based on mathematical models of understanding and prediction for decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Barrera Ferro

Professor, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana

Research Associate, Southampton University

David is an assistant professor within the Industrial Engineering Department at Pontifica Universidad Javeriana. His work falls on the applied side of operational research. He aims at developing decision support tools for resource allocation, policy evaluation and service delivery, with a particular focus in health care. Currently, he is interested in using behavioural elements to enhance planning and evaluation models.

Elena Valentina Gutiérrez

Professor, Universidad del Valle

Elena Valentina Gutiérrez is an associate professor at the School of Industrial Engineering of Universidad del Valle and a member of the Logistics and Production Research Group of the same University. Associate Researcher of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia (Minciencias), she is an Industrial Engineer, Specialist in Logistics, Master in Engineering and PhD in Engineering with emphasis in Industrial Engineering from Universidad del Valle.

She is currently president of the Colombian Association of Operations Research (ASOCIO), where she is also part of the team of coordinators of the Working Group of Operations Research in Health. Elena Valentina is vice-president of the Latin American Association of Operations Research (ALIO), and member of the team of coordinators of the ALIO Working Group on Healthcare.

Daniel Garcia-Vicuña

Professor, Universidad Pública de Navarra

Daniel is an industrial engineer with a PhD in communications technology, bioenergy and renewable energy. His research interests include simulation and optimisation of complex real-world problems. He has participated in a dozen projects, national and international, some of which fall within the scope of societal challenges and science response to the emergency situation posed by COVID-19.