Lissa Melis (L.)

Dr. Lissa Melis is assistant professor Operations Research and Operations Management at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. Her research focus lies on the development and analysis of heuristic algorithms for diverse innovative urban transport problems. Moreover, she is highly interested in the synergy between operations research and artificial intelligence.

She received her PhD in Applied Economic Sciences (Operations Research) at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. During her PhD, supported by an FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) fellowship, she focused on the on-demand bus routing problem, a dial-a-ride problem with bus stop assignment. After obtaining her PhD she was a postdoctoral researcher at Penn State University, PA, USA in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department, working on diverse urban transportation problems. She is a BAEF (Belgian American Educational Foundation) alumni, and obtained a fellowship of the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the USA.