The advisory Committee of SulphurGATE consists of the following people:
Professor Michael G. H. Bell
Michael Bell is the Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics in the Institute of Transport and Logistics, at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to this, he was for 10 years the Professor of Transport Operations at Imperial College London and for the final 5 years at Imperial the Founding Director of the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC). He graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in Economics and obtained an MSc in Transportation and a PhD on Freight Distribution from Leeds University. His research and teaching interests span ports and maritime logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering, and intelligent transport systems. He is the author of many papers, a number of books (including Transportation Network Analysis, published in 1997), was for 17 years an Associate Editor of Transportation Research B, the leading transport theory journal, and is currently an Associate Editor of Transportmetrica A.
Professor Kevin Cullinane
Prof. Kevin Cullinane is Professor of Logistics and Transport Economics at the University of Gothenburg. He has been an adviser to the World Bank and governments of Scotland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Egypt, Chile and U.K. He holds an Honorary Professorship at Hong Kong University and numerous Visiting Professorships. Kevin is a Chartered Fellow of the CILT. He has published 10 books and over 200 refereed journal papers and is an Associate Editor of both Transportation Research A and D and the International Journal of Applied Logistics. He was a member of the Civil and Construction Engineering sub-panel for REF 2014.
Professor Mihalis M. Golias
Mihalis M. Golias, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Transportation from Rutgers University and a Diploma in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the chair of the Standing Committee on Ports and Channels of the Transportation Research Board, National Academies of Science; the co-Director of the Biologistics Cluster, FexEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis, and the Associate Director of the Freight Mobility Research Institute at the Florida Atlantic University. His teaching and research cover the areas of maritime and freight transportation; physical network vulnerability; capital/operational resource allocation for network improvements; and multi-level multi-criteria decision making.
Professor Harilaos N. Psaraftis
Harilaos N. Psaraftis is a Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering. He has a diploma from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (1974), and two M.Sc. degrees (1977) and a Ph.D. (1979) from MIT, USA. He has been Assistant and Associate Professor at MIT from 1979 to 1989 and Professor at NTUA from 1989 to 2013. He has participated in 20 or so EU projects, and has coordinated 3 of them, including project SuperGreen on European green corridors (2010-2013). He has been a member and chairman of various groups at the IMO, and has also served as CEO of the Piraeus Port Authority (1996 -2002). He has published extensively and has received several academic and industry awards. His latest book is entitled “Green Transportation Logistics: The Quest for Win-Win Solutions” (Springer International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, 2016).
Professor Jonas Ringsberg
Jonas Ringsberg is the deputy head of department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, and the head of Division of Marine Technology at Chalmers. He teaches and is responsible for courses in the international master’s programme in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (MPNAV) on Chalmers. Besides his own research, he supervises and is the examiner of several PhD students. Research is focussed on computational mechanics, material mechanics and reliability analysis. His research interest and experience comprises material mechanics, fatigue (HCF, LCF, fracture mechanics, multiaxial fatigue, residual stresses and welds), probabilistic methods and risk analysis, composite mechanics and materials, and Arctic engineering.
Poul Woodall
Poul Woodall has over 40 years of experience within the maritime and transport industry. His career includes 17 years overseas experience with postings in Asia, The Middle East and Europe.Poul Woodall has a degree from Copenhagen Business School supplemented with management education at Insead and Stanford Universities. Poul is also involved with the Trident Alliance, Green Ship of the Future, Interferry and various ESSF working groups in Brussels. In July 2018 Poul joined the new CEF Transport Advisory Group of INEA.