Dr Ramin Raeesi

Dr Ramin Raeesi is a Reader in Management Science and the Director of the Centre for Logistics and Sustainability Analytics (CeLSA) at the Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems, Kent Business School (KBS). He received his PhD in Management  Science from Lancaster University Management School, where he won Kingsman Prize 2019 for the best doctoral dissertation, and prior to joining KBS was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Operational Research at Brunel University London. In recognition of his continued research and innovation achievements, Ramin has been awarded a three-year research-only secondment (2023-2026) by KBS to focus on his research and innovation activities.

Ramin’s main area of research corresponds mainly to optimisation problems that arise in supply chain, logistics and transport networks with a particular focus on decarbonisation. He is particularly interested in the vehicle routing problem and its extended applications in new fuel ecosystems such as that of electricity and hydrogen, and in routing and scheduling of mobile fuellers. Ramin is also actively conducting funded research on hydrogen supply chain design, new fuel and net-zero technologies adoption, maritime transportation, port operations, renewables and micro/smart grid optimisation, collaborative logistics, and infrastructure and fuel portability. Ramin’s research interest cover:

·      Combinatorial optimisation

·      Exact and (meta-/mat) heuristic solution algorithms

·      Multi-objective optimisation

·      The vehicle routing problem

·      Electric and hydrogen-fuelled road/maritime transport

·      Routing of mobile fuellers

·      Hydrogen supply chain design

·      Shared and collaborative logistics

·      Container terminal operations optimisation

·      Big data analytics

·      Renewable energy systems

Ramin teaches different topics in Business Analytics and Management Science and usually convenes the following modules:

• BUSN7840 Service and Supply Chain Management
• BUSN3850 Business Analysis in Practice
• BUSN9138 Digital Marketing Data Mining and Analytics 

Ramin is interested in supervising strong PhD proposals relating to the theory and application of Operational Research and data science, as well as topics relating to energy and net zero.

Ramin was/is the Principal Investigator (PI) of several funded projects on decarbonising the road and maritime transport sectors:

·      “Maritime Hydrogen Highway (MHH): Land, Sea and Port Integration of a Smart Hydrogen Highway”, PI, DfT through MarRI-UK, 01/10/2021 to 30/11/2024, £2,132,233 (£107,015 share)

·      “Priory Business Group PLC KTP”, PI, Innovate UK, 06/11/2023 to 05/05/2026, £230,527

·      “South Africa-UK PACT”, PI, FCDO and DESNZ, 01/01/2024 to 30/12/2025, £1,000,000 (£149,421 share)

·      “Green Corridor at Short Straits (GCSS) – CMDC 2”, PI, DfT through Innovate UK, 01/01/202  to 31/08/2023, £809,895 (£178,654 share)

·      “Dover Clean Ferry Power (DCFP) – CMDC 1”, PI, DfT through Innovate UK, 01/09/2021 to 31/03/2022, £438,326 (£93,621 share)

·      “Techno-economic feasibility study of hydrogen-fuelled freight transport”, PI, EPSRC Network-H2, 15/05/2021 to 15/02/2022, £62,230 (£19,220 share)

·      “Analytics for Operational Sustainability: a knowledge exchange and consultancy model for KBS”, PI, Internal Knowledge Exchange Development Fund, 01/02/2022 to 30/06/2022, £11,000.