BSc (Belgrade), MSc (Belgrade), PhD (Belgrade)
Professor of Operational Research
Department: Operations Management and Information SystemsE-mail: Sanja.Petrovic@nottingham.ac.ukTel: +44 (0) 115 8467764
Location: C11 (Si Yuan Building, Jubilee Campus)
Sanja Petrovic is a Professor of Operational Research in the Nottingham University Business School. Sanja is also President of the Operational Research Society. She has conducted and led multi-disciplinary research into development of models, heuristics and algorithms for a variety of real world optimisation and scheduling problems, including scheduling of patients, employee timetabling, vehicle routing problems, hub locations and routing, radiotherapy planning, production scheduling, and university timetabling. Her research areas include the theory and practice of optimisation methods and meta-heuristics, case-based reasoning, multicriteria decision making, data mining, and modelling of uncertainty by using fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic.
Prof Petrovic has been the principal investigator on 4 projects funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) that deal with real-world scheduling and planning problems and principal investigator in Nottingham on a project funded by Technology Strategy Board. She has been also a principal investigator in Nottigham on multisite research projects, and co-investigator on 17 other externally funded grants.
Sanja is president of the UK Operational Research Society. She was a Vice-president of the UK Operational Research Society in two terms (2013-2018), Chair of the Committee of Professors of Operational Research in the UK (COPIOR) since 2018, and a Co-ordinator of the EURO (European Association of Operational Research Societies) Working group on Automated Timetabling (WATT) since 2006. Sanja was included in the prestigious Stanford University Top 2% Scientists Ranking in 2023. She was a guest co-editor for special issues of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Journal of Scheduling and Annals of Operations Research. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Scheduoilng, member of the Strategic Advisor Board of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research - YUJOR. She was Chair of the OR53, UK Operational Research conference, Nottingham, September 6-8, 2011 and has been a member of over 20 programme/refereeing committees of international conferences in the last 5 years. She has published more than 60 papers in international scientific journals, 30 book chapters and over 70 papers in international conference proceedings. She has been supervised 19 PhD students to completion and 9 Post-doctoral research fellows.