Portsmouth Business School
Dr Jana Ries
Lecturer (Subject Group - Operations and Systems Management)
Portsmouth Business School
Richmond Building Room 4.14
Portland Street
Portsmouth
PO1 3DE
Profile
Dr Jana Ries, PhD, MSc
Jana is a Lecturer at Portsmouth Business School and a member of the Logistics and Management Mathematics research group. Her teaching subjects are Quantitative methods and International Trade & Physical Distribution.
Her main research interests are:
- Meta-heuristics
- transport logistics and
- supply chain management with a particular focus on green logistics.
She has been a member of the University of Portsmouth research team on two EU-funded project under the 7th Framework Programme: LOGMAN (www.logman-footprint.eu) and SEABILLA (www.seabilla.eu). In collaboration with members of CORE (El Grupo de COnfiguración de REdes) research group at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (Chile), she is working on developing optimisation strategies for port operations in container terminals.
She has presented her work at international conferences in various places including Charleston (US), Puerto Varas (Chile), Lisbon (Portugal) and Zurich (Switzerland).