Prof. Djamila Ouelhadj is a Senior Lecturer in Operational Research and a member of the Logistics and Operational Research Group (LORG) at the Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth. She is also the Course Leader of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Her main research interests are operational Research and the development of novel mathematical optimization models, advanced meta-heuristic methods, and intelligent decision support systems for automatically producing high-quality solutions to a wide range of real-world optimization, scheduling, and logistics problems. She has carried out successful research in Operational Research since 1995. She received her PhD from the University of Nottingham. She then worked as a researcher and a lecturer for six years in the Automated Scheduling, Optimization, and Planning Research Group (ASAP) at the University of Nottingham. She has chaired the scheduling stream in OR53, OR54, and OR55. She has organized several Southern Operational Society Workshops on Optimization and Scheduling in Healthcare and Logistics and Transportation.