Activities

External esteem

Our academics regularly receive honours and awards from external institutions and research bodies. They often hold positions on research and advisory boards and are invited to speak about their research at events around the world.

Dr Nikolaos Argyris

  • UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College Member: 2018 – present
  • EPSRC Associate Peer Review College Member: 2016 – present
  • Finalist, INFORMS Decision Analysis Publication Award, 2016

Professor L. Alberto Franco

  • EURO Excellence in Practice Award, with G. Montibeller, 2021
  • British Journal of Management’s Top 10 Article. Paper: Visual Interactions with Strategy Tools, with S. Paroutis and T. Papadopoulos, 2016
  • Decision Analyst Society’s Practice Competition Award Finalist. Paper: Supporting the Prioritisation of Emerging Animal Threats for the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with Decision Analysis, with G. Montibeller, 2016
  • Finalist in the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Practice Award, with G. Montibeller, 2016.

Professor Jiyin Liu

  • Keynote at the 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications. Beijing, 2018
  • Co-chaired The OR Society Annual Conference, 2017
  • Received IISE Transactions Design & Manufacturing Best Application Paper Award, 2017

Professor Gilberto Montibeller

  • EURO Excellence in Practice Award, with L. A. Franco, 2021
  • Winner of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Practice Award, with C. Carland and J. Goentzel, 2018
  • Finalist in the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Practice Award, with L. A. Franco, 2016
  • Winner Best Paper Award by the Society for Risk Analysis, with D. von Winterfeldt, 2015

Professor Victor Podinovski

  • William W. Cooper Lifetime Contribution Award: Awarded by the International Data Envelopment Analysis Society in 2019
  • European Journal of Operational Research: Editor’s Award for Excellence in Reviewing, 2016 and 2018
  • Keynote at Data Envelopment Analysis International Conference, Seoul, 2020
  • Plenary workshop, 17th International Conference on DEA, Calgary, 2019
  • Plenary keynote at Data Envelopment Analysis International Conference, University of Kent, 2019
  • Plenary workshop at the 15th International Conference on DEA, Prague, 2017

Dr Antuela Anthi Tako

  • OR Society President's Medal for SMITEGR8 simulation modelling research project, 2021
  • Co-Chair of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop SW20, 2020
  • Full Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College Member, 2018
  • Organising Committee Member for the UK’s Operational Research Society Annual Conference 2017
  • Keynote speaker for the Simulation stream at the Young OR19 Conference, Aston Business School, Birmingham, 2015
  • Director of the NATCOR Simulation Course, 2013 - present

International activities

2020

  • The 46th Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research in Health Care, University of Vienna, Austria (online) – Dong Li
  • The 5th International conference on Business Management of Technology, International Institute of Applied Informatics, Japan (online) – Dong Li
  • Research visit to the Finnish Environment Institute, Finland – Gilberto Montibeller
  • Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting (online) – Gilberto Montibeller
  • 2020 Winter Simulation Conference - Virtual, Orlando World Center Marriott, Orlando, USA – Antuela Tako
  • Keynote Speaker at the International Seminar on System Dynamics, Indonesian system dynamics expert association – Antuela Tako
  • Keynote at Data Envelopment Analysis International Conference, Seoul, Korea (online) – Victor Podinovski
  • North American Productivity Workshop XI, University of Miami, USA (online) – Victor Podinovski
  • INFORMS Virtual 2020 Annual Meeting – Antuela Tako

2019

  • EURO 2019, 30th European Conference on Operational Research, Dublin, Ireland – Nikos Argyris, Ilkka Leppanen, Jiyin Liu, Victor Podinovski and Duncan Robertson
  • 2nd International Meeting on Healthcare Systems Design Research, Denmark, Sweden – Antuela Tako
  • Behavioural OR Summer School in Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 2019 – Antuela Tako
  • The 12th Annual International Conference of Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering, Chengdu, China – Dong Li
  • Invited Seminar at Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China – Dong Li
  • Research visit to Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA – Gilberto Montibeller
  • INFORMS annual conference, Seattle, USA – Gilberto Montibeller
  • Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA – Gilberto Montibeller
  • Research visit to Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany – Victor Podinovski
  • 17th International Conference on DEA, University of Calgary, Canada – Victor Podinovski
  • Academic Visitor, UDD Centre for Social Complexity, Santiago, Chile – Duncan Robertson
  • 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, Maryland, USA – Antuela Tako

2018

  • EURO 2018, 29th European Conference on Operational Research, Valencia, Spain. Nikos Argyris and Gilberto Montibeller
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, USA - Ilkka Leppanen and Gilberto Montibeller. Gilberto won the Decision Analysis Society Practice Award (joint project with the MIT)
  • Research visit to Center of Transportation and Logistics, MIT, Boston, USA – Gilberto Montibeller
  • Research visit to Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA – Gilberto Montibeller
  • Research visit to the Department of Production Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil – Gilberto Montibeller
  • Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea – Victor Podinovski
  • BIC-TA 2018, The 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications. Beijing, China – Jiyin Liu
  • North American Productivity Workshop X, University of Miami, Florida, USA – Victor Podinovski
  • Research Visit, University of Queensland, Australia – Duncan Robertson
  • Academic Visitor, UDD Centre for Social Complexity, Santiago, Chile – Duncan Robertson
  • 2018 Winter Simulation Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden – Antuela Tako

Journal editorships and editorial board editorships

  • Dr Nikolaos Argyris served as Guest Co-Editor of a special issue of Risk Analysis (2019).
  • Professor Alberto Franco is Associate Editor of Group Decision and Negotiation and Co-Editor of EURO Journal on Decision Processes. He also serves on the Editorial Board of European Journal of Operational Research.
  • Professor Baibing Li is a member of editorial advisory board of Transportation Research Part B (Methodological).
  • Professor Jiyin Liu served as Guest Co-Editor of special issue of Systems Science & Control Engineering on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, 2019.
  • Professor Gilberto Montibeller is Associate Editor of INFORMS Decision Analysis Journal and has served as Area Editor of the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. He is a member of the Editorial Board of EURO Journal on Decision Processes and Futures & Foresight Science. Professor Montibeller has also served as Gues Co-Editor of special issues of Risk Analysis, European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Decision Analysis and EURO Journal on Decision Processes.
  • Dr Grammatoula Papaioannou has served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies since February 2010.
  • Professor Victor Podinovski is Co-Editor of Journal of Productivity Analysis and Associate Editor of Omega. He has also served as Guest Co-Editor of special issues of Annals of Operations Research (2017 and 2020), and earlier issues of European Journal of Operation Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society.
  • Dr Duncan Robertson is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management.
  • Dr Antuela Tako is Associate Editor of Journal of the Operational Research Society and Journal of Simulation.

Research grants

The Management Science and Operations group has successfully bid for the following recent funded projects:

  • National Institute for Health Research, Project title: Kenya-UK development award to support the design of a whole system approach to facilitate the functioning of the baby friendly community initiative within the Kenyan health system, 2021, Antuela Tako.
  • NHS Wales Collaborative Health Foundation Award Fund, Project title: Exploring implementation barriers of analytics and simulation projects in healthcare 2020-21, Antuela Tako.
  • EPSRC. Project title: An Algorithmic Model for Critical Medical Resource Rationing in a Public Health Emergency, 2020-21, Dong Li.
  • NHS Wales Collaborative Health Foundation Award Fund, Project title: Exploring implementation barriers of analytics and simulation projects in healthcare, 2020-2021, Antuela Tako.

Visiting positions and external roles

  • Professor Gilberto Montibeller is a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Adjunct Professor at the Hertie School of Government (Germany). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern California.
  • Antuela Tako is an External Examiner at Southampton Business School (2020-2023).