
Inês Marques
Assistant Professor
Instituto Superior Técnico
Inês Marques is Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering and Management (DEG, IST, University of Lisbon), and Researcher at the Centre for Management Studies. Her main research areas focus on operations research for operations management, mainly to support planning and scheduling decisions and to improve health care service delivery. She has worked in several research projects in collaboration with health care service providers. She has published in journals in the areas of operations research and management science. She was co-Coordinator of the European Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (EWG ORAHS) and member of the board of the European Working Group on Practice of Operational Research (EWG POR). She holds a degree in Mathematics Applied to Economics and Management, a MSc in Operations Research and a PhD in Statistics and Operations Research.
Publications
International Transactions in Operational Research | 2023
International Transactions in Operational Research | 2023
European Journal of Operational Research | 2022
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal | 2022
Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics | 2021
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Research Groups
OpLog – Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
MOSAIC – systems modelling and Methods of Operations reSearch And analytICs
Projects
LAIfeBlood - Artificial Intelligence for Blood Management
The goal of LAIfeBlood project is to provide IPST with new tools to improve efficiency of blood supply operations in Portugal. LAIfeBlood project is particularly focused on: (1) extracting temporal and geographical patterns from historical collection and transfusion data; (2) developing predictive models for the expected collections and transfusions in different temporal and geographic areas; and (3) developing software tools to optimize the planning of collections at the national level according to the availability of IPST teams and resources and collection events.
Data2Help - Data science for the optimization of emergency medical services
Emergency medical services in mainland Portugal are coordinated by Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (INEM). In most cases, medical emergency situations are reported to INEM through a phone call to the 112 number, where specialized medical staff classifies the emergency situation and dispatches the proper emergency vehicle (ambulance, helicopter, life-support vehicle, among other) along with medical staff. Each vehicle is equipped to deal with different situations from light injuries to life-support.
ImproveOR - Decision support tools for better quality in operating rooms management
The ImproveOR project aims at improving efficiency in surgical care delivery and at improving access to surgical care, as a result of an increase of the operating room responsiveness to surgical demand and a better coordination between surgical supply and demand. Decision support tools are developed combining optimization approaches to assist resource capacity planning decisions in the operating room with structured participatory approaches to capture stakeholders’ views and preferences regarding the surgical patient flows and the planning and scheduling of surgeries.