Professor Francisco Saldanha da Gama

PhD

Management School

Chair in Supply Chain Management

Francisco Saldanha da Gama
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Francisco.Saldanha-da-Gama@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3225
C095, Sheffield University Management School

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Professor Francisco Saldanha da Gama
Management School
C095
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
Profile

Throughout my academic career I have worked in different universities and faculties. I have taught many different modules both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have published extensively in scientific international journals mostly in the fields of facility location and Supply Chain Management. I co-edited the two editions of the “Location Science” volume published by Springer. I presented above 150 contributed talks at scientific events being invited to innumerable scientific events as a plenary/semi-plenary/keynote speaker. I was awarded several prizes and honours. I am a member of several scientific organizations such as the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis of which I am one of the past coordinators. Currently, I am the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Operations Research and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several other scholarly journals.

Qualifications

PhD - University of Lisbon

Research interests
  • Supply chain management
  • Logistics
  • Decision-making under uncertainty.

My research has focused on the role of facility location decisions in strategic supply chain planning, which calls for developing optimization models and solution techniques for comprehensive problems emerging in the real-world. Aspects such as the time-dependent nature of the decisions to make and he uncertainty underlying the data have attracted my attention together with network design decisions. Additionally, I have focused on integrating the above decisions with others made both at a tactical and operational levels such as routing, capacity, and inventory. I have devoted part of my research activity to several families of scheduling problems such as the resource constrained project scheduling problem and its extensions.

Publications

Books

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

  • Correia I, Nickel S & Saldanha-Da-gama F (2016) A modeling framework for stochastic multi-period capacitated multiple allocation hub location. ILS 2016 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain RIS download Bibtex download
  • Heckmann I, Nickel S & Saldanha-Da-gama F (2016) The risk-Aware multi-period capacitated plant location problem (CPLP-Risk). ILS 2016 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain RIS download Bibtex download
  • Correia I, Nickel S & Saldanha-Da-Gama F (2010) Single-allocation hub location problems with capacity decisions and balancing requirements. International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering - Proceedings (pp 51-56) RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Albareda-Sambola M, Fernández E & Saldanha-da-Gama F (2023) Outsourcing policies for the Facility Location Problem with Bernoulli Demand. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Operations Management and Decision Sciences (OMDS) Research Centre

INFORMS - Institute for the Operations Research and Management Science, Operational Research Society

Operational Research Society (UK)

EURO working group on Stochastic Optimization

EWGLA - EURO Working Group on Location Analysis

ECCO – European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization

SOLA – Section on Location Analysis, INFORMS

Grants

2020–2023

"Optimization and evaluation of resources: methodological and computational advances and applications" (PID2019-105952GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Espanha.

2020–2023

Portuguese Science Foundation, Project UIDB/04561/2020, Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional, 2020.

2019–2021

“Optimización Matemática y Combinatoria en Redes”. Grant funded by the Ministry of Economy and y Competitiveness, Spain.

2019–2021

"Analysis y resolucion de problemas de rutas de vehiculos y localzacion de servicios" (PGC2018-099428-B-I00). Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Espanha.

2019

Project UID/MAT/04561/2019—Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional. Grant funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation. 2017–2021 "Sequentielles Entscheiden bei systeminhärenter Unsicherheit: Mathematische Optimierungsverfahren für zeitdynamische Anwendungen'', in German (Time-dependent decisions under uncertainty: optimization models and methods). Project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)---Project 354864080. Main Researchers: Fabian Dunke and Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2017, 2018

Project SFRH/BSAB/130291/2017. Individual grant for a sabbatical period abroad funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation.

2016–2019 "DO-ILT: Optimizacion discreta para problemas integrados en logistica y transporte" (MTM2015-63779-R), Grant funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Espanha.

2015–2019

Portuguese Science Foundation, project UID/MAT/04561/2013, Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional.

2015, 2016

Grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation (DAAD from the German side) for a Portuguese-German project.

2014–2016

Thematic Network: Location and Related Problems (MTM2014-53828-REDT). Ministry of Economy and y Competitiveness.

2012–2015

Project "OPTIMOS3: Modelos y métodos de Programación Matemática y sus aplicaciones". (Mathematical Programming models and methods and their applications). Grant funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MTM2012‐36163‐C06‐05). 2011–2013 Thematic Network: Location and Related Problems (MTM2010-12053-E). Ministry of Economy and y Competitiveness.

2009–2012

Project "OPTIMOS2: Modelos y métodos de Programación Matemática y sus aplicaciones". (Mathematical Programming models and methods and their applications). Grant fuded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MTM2009-14039-C06-05).

2009, 2010

Grant by the Council of the Portuguese Universities (DAAD from the German side) for a Portuguese-German project. 2008, 2009 Portuguese Science Foundation Sabbatical funding, SFRH/BSAB/799/2008. Grant for a sabbatical period abroadfunded by the Portuguese Science Foundation.

1995–2014

Projects PRAXIS/2/2.1/MAT/139/94 and POCTI-ISFL-1-152—Centro de Investigação Operacional. Grant funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation, Faculty ofScience, University of Lisbon (Assistant Researcher).

1991–1993

Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica (JNICT) – Portugal –10/1991-07/1993, individual grant as an M.Sc. student.

Teaching interests

In the past two decades I have gathered a teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels focusing on many different topics that include statistics, operations research, logistics, decision making under uncertainty, inventory management, production planning, and scheduling to mention a few. I have taught for students enrolled in different programs such as Engineering, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, etc. It has always been my concern to adapt the contents to the background of the students and also to the profile of the program in which they are enrolled. I always ensure that students can follow the contents from the very beginning of a module and progressively deepen their knowledge together with the interest in the topics taught. Finally, at a postgraduate level, I have also supervised different MSc and PhD students again with different profiles and goals. I think that teaching can be successful only if a learner-centred attitude. This makes it possible to strongly motivate students and prepare them better for a successful professional life while simultaneously promoting inclusion, equity, and tolerance, thus widely fulfilling the role of the dichotomy teaching-learning.

Teaching activities

Currently, at Sheffield University Management School, I am teaching Analysis for Decision Making and Business Statistics.

Professional activities and memberships

Editor-in-Chief, Computers and Operations Research; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of three scholarly journals: the Journal of the Operational Research society (UK), Operations Research Perspectives, and Algorithms; Consulting Editor of the journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open.

PhD Supervision

At a PhD level, I am keen on supervising students who look for contributing to scientific advances in the areas of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, with a strong focus on intertwining strategic and operational decisions via the development of models that an capture the major features of relevance in the problems. Though the proposal of rational ways for finding feasible solutions to such problems a major goal should be to better support decision-makers achieving more efficient and effective solutions to the problems not overlooking major concerns such as sustainability and resilience.

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