Mike Bell is Professor of Transport Operations at Imperial College London and Director of PORTeC. His research and teaching interests span freight flow modelling, travel demand forecasting, traffic engineering and control, dynamic routing and scheduling, transport telematics, and the treatment of risk and uncertainty in transport operations. Mike has published widely, chaired a number of international symposia on transport operations and planning, and operated as a Consultant & Advisor for various public and private bodies. He is the author of ‘Transport Network Analysis' and many other papers.

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Sonal Ahuja is a part-time PhD student at CTS, imperial College London and a senior Transport Modeller at a leading UK firm. He specialises in Transport modelling, software development, traffic simulation, infrastructure planning and development. In ports, he carried out projects on freight modelling, traffic flow operations, and ferry-port microsimulation. He holds an MSc in Transport Engineering and Operations, and an MSc in Transport Planning. His research interests in ports include port simulation, modelling and multi-objective optimisation using evolutionary algorithms.

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Panagiotis Angeloudis is a Research Assistant at CTS, Imperial College London, where he also studies towards his PhD in Port Operations and has previousely obtained an MEng in Civil & Environmental Engineering. He has past research and work experience in the engineering and maritime sectors, as well as international organisations. Since the beginning of his research in Imperial, he has worked in the areas of port automation, optimisation and design. He is also the principal developer behind the Limen port simulator and a global container traffic model.

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Giovanni Luca Barletta is a PhD student at Imperial College London. He obtained his MSc in Business Engineering at Politecnico of Bari and worked afterwards as a consultant focusing mainly on port security and Ro-Ro shipping in the Mediterranean. He later obtained his MSc in Transport with Business management from Imperial College. He also collaborated with Politecnico of Bari in researches on RFID applications. His current research interests are on the market structure of the liner shipping industry and on the influence of smart technologies in port security.

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Robert Cochrane is a visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and has over 40 years international experience in financial appraisal, planning, construction and operation of transport facilities. Following a career which has included periods as Director of two leading consultancy practices, he has operated for the last 8 years as an Independent Consultant. Experience in container ports includes design, construction and operation of the world's largest private terminals and the development of strategic plans for Hong Kong as a logistics hub for the Pearl River and Asia.

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Andrew Evans has been Lloyds Register Professor of Transport Risk Management at Imperial College London since January 2004, and was Professor of Transport Safety at University College London in 1991-2003. He is an economist and statistician by background and he regularly advices on safety risk assessment and on the economic appraisal of safety projects and regulations. His safety interests are in risk estimation, risk appraisal, the economics of safety, and safety regulation. Andrew is a Chartered statistician and Fellow of the Institute of Transport & Logistics.

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Sheila Farrell is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and a port consultant with over 35 years experience in port planning and parallel interest in academic research. She has been involved in around 80 port studies in 45 countries mainly in the fields of port planning, investment appraisal, privatisation and financial restructuring. She has also undertaken work for shipping companies in the areas of vessel operating strategies, performance and management audit. Sheila is the author of two books on port policy and finance, and was involved in the Container World Project at Imperial.

Eleni Hadjiconstantinou is a Reader in Operational Research at the Business School, Imperial College London and Deputy Director of PORTeC. She is best known for her work on routing and distribution, production and resource planning, network design and optimisation, location and layout, and cutting and packing. She has published widely in a variety of journals in the field of operations research, and has undertaken a number of research projects for the water industry including projects funded by the European Union.

Imperial College profile and projects

Evelina Klerides is a PhD student at Business School, Imperial College London. Her research deals with applying Operational Research and Stochastic Programming techniques on various project scheduling problems. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and obtained her MSc in Operational Research from the London School of Economics. She recently obtained a Research Assistant position at Imperial College, focusing on the application of Stochastic Programming on Automated Guided Vehicles in ports.

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Tina Qianwen Liu is a PhD student in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. She is engaged in constituting the eleventh 'five-year' (2005-2010) Beijing transport plan, which is aimed at ensuring the best transport service during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the sustainable development of Beijing. She has completed an internship in COSCO. Her research interests are on the efficiency of intermodal transport system with the focus of shipping line efficiency and shipping company behavior.

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Nang Laik Ma is a PhD student at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London. She is undertaking research in mathematical programming of real-world assignment, transportation and scheduling problems. She graduated in 2000 with a Master of Science in computational engineering from MIT and NUS. She then worked for three years in PSA (Port of Singapore) as a Senior System Analyst, and accumulated a good knowledge and experience in yard planning and optimisation for containers stacking assignments.

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Francesca Medda joined the University College London in 2005 as a lecturer in transport economics within the Centre for Transport Studies (CTS). She has worked as lecturer at the London School of Economics and the University of Reading. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Graz (Austria) and at Cass Business School (London). Her research is mainly focussed on economic performance, how transport investment impacts on public and private industrial organizations, risk analysis, and decision making. Her research has been published in the leading academic journals and she has been invited to present papers at international conferences and professional gatherings.

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Hamed Nikhalat is a PhD student at Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London. He obtained his MSc in Marine Structures Engineering from University of Tehran, where he was previously awarded a BSc in Civil Engineering. He has past experiences in maritime consultancy, and bulk terminal design in particular. His current research interests are on the design, modeling and optimization of liquid bulk terminals.

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Precious Ikem is a PhD student at Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London where she also obtained a Masters degree (MSc) in Structural Engineering. She previously graduated from the University of Nottingham with an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. She has past work experience in the structural engineering of Roads and Rails. Her interest lies in the role of road and rail access to ports in economic development of developing countries.

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Xin Liu is a PhD student at CTS, Imperial College London where he has also obtained his MSc in Transport.  Behfore that  he was awarded his BSc and BEng at Dalian Maritime University . He has been involved with the improvement of the government administrative efficiency on logistics industry research scheme at DMU China. Since the beginning of his postgraduate career, he expanded his research topic to the game theory in container liner shipping market. His research interests lie on container flow modelling and port choice.

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Konstantinos Zavitsas is a PhD student at CTS, Imperial College London from where he obtained a MEng in Civil Engineering. He has held placements at the Greek Helenic Railway Organisation where he was involved in the construction of the new railway cargo terminal of Athens at Thriasio. Since the beginning of his research at Imperial, he has worked in the areas of shipping route optimization, robustness and security. His research is on the simulation and analysis of global shipping networks of energy and oil products.

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