Prof. Sanja Petrovic, PhD
Division of Operations Management and Information Systems
Nottingham University Business School
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road
Nottingham, UK
e-mail: sanja.petrovic@nottingham.ac.uk
webpage: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/people/pszsxp.phtml
Title of the invited lecture: Will be announced soon (The EURO plenary)
Authors: Sanja Petrovic (The EURO plenary)
Will be announced soon.
Short CV:
Sanja Petrovic is a Professor of Operational Research (OR) in Nottingham University Business School, UK. She has conducted and led multi-disciplinary research into development of models, heuristics and algorithms for a variety of real-world optimisation and scheduling problems, including radiotherapy planning, scheduling of patients, employee timetabling, production scheduling, vehicle routing problems and university timetabling. Her research areas include optimisation methods and meta-heuristics, case-based reasoning, multicriteria decision making, data-mining, and fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. Sanja has been the principal and co-investigator on projects mostly funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Technology Strategy Board. Sanja is a President-f the Operational Research Society UK, in the period 2025-2026. Sanja was a Vice-president of the UK OR Society in two terms (2013-2018), Chair of the Committee of Professors of OR in the UK (COPIOR) 2018 – 2021, and a Co-ordinator of the EURO (European Association of OR Societies) Working group on Automated Timetabling since 2006. She was a guest co-editor for special issues of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Journal of Scheduling and Annals of Operations Research. She is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Associate Editor of the Journal of Scheduling and a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR). She was Chair of the UK OR conference – OR53, held in Nottingham in 2011. She has published around 60 papers in international scientific journals and 30 book chapters and has supervised 19 PhD students to completion. Sanja was included in the prestigious Stanford University Top 2% Scientists Ranking in 2023.