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Douglas Alem is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Business School, where he serves as the Programme Director for the MSc in Data & Decision Analytics (online). His academic background includes a Production Engineering degree from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, and both an MSc and PhD in Computer Science with an emphasis on Computational Mathematics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses primarily on practical operations planning problems in humanitarian logistics. This encompasses distribution of emergency commodities in post-disaster scenarios, location-allocation concerning social issues during various disaster phases, and the design of supply chains that align operational and tactical decisions throughout the disaster lifecycle. Alem's work often involves addressing diverse uncertainties in parameters such as demand and supply costs through optimization techniques, including stochastic programming and robust optimization. He is particularly interested in formulating new optimization models in the context of disaster management and analyzing numerical results to provide insights into practical disaster scenarios, with a focus on mathematical modeling and optimization in transportation and logistics as well as production planning and manufacturing.
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