Professor Maria Paola Scaparra
About
Professor Scaparra is a Reader in Management Science at Kent Business School (KBS), University of Kent. She is currently the head of the Management Science group at KBS and an active member of the Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation.
Research interests
Her research interests include the application of optimization techniques to critical infrastructure protection planning, disaster management and humanitarian logistics among others. She has published many papers and book chapters on these topics in top-ranked operational research and geography journals and has been involved in several international, multi-disciplinary and consultancy projects, including EPSRC, DSTL, KTP and European projects.
Dr Scaparra’s research presently focuses on the integration of Operational Research, also known as the Science of Better, with other disciplines (e.g. social science, climatology, civil engineering and economics) to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals and help solve intractable challenges in developing countries.