Bios of the speakers

Michel Bierlaire is a full professor and director of the Transportation and Mobility Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland. Since 2009, he is the director of TraCE, the Transportation Center. Since September 2017, he is the head of the Civil Engineering Institute at EPFL.

His main expertise is in the design, development and applications of models and algorithms for the design, analysis and management of transportation systems. Namely, he has been active in demand modelling (discrete choice models, estimation of origin-destination matrices), operations research (scheduling, assignment, etc.) and Dynamic Traffic Management Systems. At DTU’s 2024 PhD summerschool, he will share his expertise round behavioral models and optimization.

He is the founder of hEART: the European Association for Research in Transportation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. He is an Associate Editor of Operations Research and an Editorial Board Editor of Transportation Research Part B.

Marie Schmidt is a full professor in Optimization under resource constraints at the Institute for Computer science at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. She has obtained her PhD from the University of Gottingen with Prof. Anita Schöbel, and after worked as an associate professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her research interests lie in public transportation analytics, decision-making under uncertainty (in particular robust optimization), and  multi-criteria optimization. At the summerschool she will share her expertise on robust optimization in public transportation.

Stefan Røpke is a full professor in operations research at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at the Technical University in Denmark. Research interests of Stefan Røpke include decomposition algorithms, metaheuristics and machine learning. Stefan Røpke is primarily focusing on applications within transport.

Evelien van der Hurk is an associate professor at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at the Technical University in Denmark. She has obtained her Phd from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University with Prof. Leo Kroon and Prof. Peter Vervest. She is currently co-leading the EU project EASIER on creating smooth urban transport networks and the DFF project IntraUrban on user oriented network design in public transport. Her research interest focus is mainly on the optimization of public transport systems, with a focus on passengers, and the use of large data sets. At this summerschool, she will share her expertise on network design and line planning for public transport systems.