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Sara Martins is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Technology and Management (ESTG) of Polytechnic of Porto (P.Porto), an Invited Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), and a researcher at INESC TEC. She completed her PhD at FEUP in 2018. Her research focuses on Food Waste, Retail Operations, Collaborative Logistics, Sustainable Supply Chains, and Distribution. She has collaborated on 13 R&D projects and disseminated her research through 9 papers in top international peer-reviewed journals, 4 book chapters, 2 papers in international conference proceedings, and over 20 abstracts/posters in international conferences. She is co-supervising one PhD thesis, has supervised 20+ master's theses (five ongoing), and has participated in more than 20 master's examination boards as the main arguent, as well as in one PhD examination board. She has been actively involved in organizing academic events, including the 2nd EURO Working Group Meeting on Retail Operations (2017), the DEGI-Club fortnightly sessions, the Industrial Engineering and Management Symposium at FEUP (2014–2019), and the 2nd EUROYoung Workshop (2020). She is currently the President of the Organizing Committee of the XXIV Congress of the Portuguese Operational Research Association.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Martins

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5312-4DE4-1C5B
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8320-7346
AuthenticusID
R-00F-R07
Researcher Id
R-6576-2019
Scopus Author Id
57193443042
Education
Degree Classification
2014/09 - 2018/01
Concluded
 Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Retail Distribution Planning to Brick-and-Mortar Stores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2009 - 2014
Concluded
 Master in Industrial Engineering and Management (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Configuration of the supply chain of a pharmaceutical wholesaler" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 out of 20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/11/01 - 2020/10/02 Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2018/02 - 2018/10 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2015/02 - 2018/01 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2017/01/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Katholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Ingolstadt, Germany
2014/01 - 2015/01 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03 - Current Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2018/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/10/06 - 2023/02 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2016/02 - 2018/02 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/02/01 - 2018/01/31 Market-driven Supply Chain Planning for Food Retailers
SFRH/BD/102013/2014
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
FCT Fundação para a Ciência Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/08/01 - 2015/01/31 Design of Food Supply Chains
AE2014-0116
Research Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 FCT Fundação para a Ciência Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/01/02 - 2014/07/31 Flow Management Project
AE2013-0141
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 FCT Fundação para a Ciência Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - Current Be Fresh - On incorporating consumer behaviour into the supply chain planning of fresh products
PTDC/EGE-OGE/4667/2021
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 FCT Fundação para a Ciência Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/02/05 - 2018/10/31 TEC4Growth: Pervasive Intelligence, Enhancers and Proofs of Concept with Industrial Impact
AE2017-0381
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
2014/09 - 2015/04 WholeChain: Quantitative Framework for Perishable Food Supply Chain Management
EXPL/EMS-GIN/1930/2013
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 FCT Fundação para a Ciência Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022/09 - Current InsectERA - A ERA da indústria dos insetos
InsectERA
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/09 - Current Produtech R3 (Recuperação, Resiliência, Reindustrialização)
Produtech R3
Researcher
Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/07 - 2021/09 MobFoods: Mobilizing scientific and technological knowledge in response to the challenges of the agri-food market
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-024524
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2019 - 2020/06/30 Analysis of the selective collection of commercial urban waste
PL03062
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Company funding
Concluded
2019/03 - 2019/07 ValProduct: Study of the impact of products validity contracts
PL03056
Principal investigator
Company funding
2014/11 - 2015/05 Agile Flow Network - unified view of the DC-store assignment
PL03017
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Company funding
Concluded
2014/02 - 2014/07 Configuration of the Supply Chain of a Pharmaceutical Wholesaler
PL03009
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Company funding
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pereira, Rúben; Santos, Maria João; Martins, Sara. "Optimizing Facility Location for Insect Production". In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 172-183. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-77432-4_12
  2. Ferreira, Paulo; Pardal, André; Martins, Sara. "Allocation and Sequencing of Missions on Autonomous Vehicles". In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 184-197. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-77432-4_13
  3. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Consistent Consolidation Strategies in Grocery Retail Distribution". In Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 159-171. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-10731-4_11
  4. Pires, Maria João; Amorim, Pedro; Martins, Sara; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Production Planning of Perishable Food Products by Mixed-Integer Programming". In CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences, 331-352. Springer International Publishing, 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-20328-7_19
Conference abstract
  1. Sousa, Mariana; Amorim, Pedro; Santos, Maria João; Martins, Sara. "Consumer behavior regarding the remaining shelf life of perishable products". Paper presented in EURO2022 - 32nd European Conference on Operational Research, 2022.
  2. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "The Impact Of The Minimum Life On Receipt (MLOR) Criterion In Food Supply Chains". Paper presented in INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2021.
  3. Akbalik, Ayse; Rapine, Christophe; Martins, Sara. "Heuristics for multi-commodity capacitated profitable tour problem". Paper presented in 21st congress ROADEF 2020, 2020.
  4. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "How do minimum life on receipt (MLOR) agreements impact food supply chains?". Paper presented in 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seatle, 2019.
    Published
  5. Martins, Sara; Vasconcelos, Tiago; Akbalik, Ayse; Rapine, Christophe. "Fleet Sizing and Composition in Grocery Retailing". Paper presented in 7th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (VeRoLog), Seville, 2019.
    Published
  6. Ivo Carvalho, Mafalda; Barbosa-Póvoa, Ana; Relvas, Susana; Martins, Sara. "Waste and by-products mapping towards sustainable supply chain management". Paper presented in EURO2019 - 30th European Conference on Operational Research, Dublin, 2019.
    Published
  7. Ostermeier, Manuel; Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Hübner, Alexander. "Loading Constraints for a Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem". Paper presented in 6th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (VeRoLog), Amsterdam, 2017.
    Accepted
  8. Ostermeier, Manuel; Martins, Sara; Hübner, Alexander; Amorim, Pedro. "Grocery Distribution with Multi-Compartment Vehicles". Paper presented in EUROXXVIII - 28th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan, 2016.
    Published
  9. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Planning Product-Delivery Modes For Grocery Retailers' Stores". Paper presented in POMS 27th Annual Conference, Orlando, 2016.
    Published
  10. Amorim, Pedro; Martins, Sara; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Finding the Best Product Delivery Modes for Grocery Retail Stores". Paper presented in 2016 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research, Orlando, 2016.
    Published
  11. Martins, Sara; Curcio, Eduardo; Amorim, Pedro; Guimarães, Luís; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "An Optimization-Simulation Approach for Warehouse Distribution Master Planning". Paper presented in EUROXXVII - 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, 2015.
    Published
  12. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Market-driven Tactical Supply Chain Planning for Retailers". Paper presented in XI International Workshop on Cutting, Packing and Related Topics (XI IWCPRT), Guimarães, 2015.
    Published
  13. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Figueira, Gonçalo; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Supply Chain Management using Optimization-Simulation approach for the Pharmaceutical Distribution". Paper presented in IFORS 2014 - 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Barcelona, 2014.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Ostermeier, Manuel; Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Hübner, Alexander. "Loading Constraints for a Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem". Paper presented in 12th Metaheuristics International Conference, Barcelona, 2017.
    Published
  2. Martins, Sara; Ostermeier, Manuel; Hübner, Alexander; Amorim, Pedro. "An ALNS for solving the MCVRP with Product-Specific Time-Windows Assignment". Paper presented in 12th Metaheuristics International Conference, Barcelona, 2017.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Santos, Maria João; Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro. "A comparison of the Minimum Life On Receipt (MLOR) rule in centralized and decentralized inventory management systems". Paper presented in 6th EURO Working Group Meeting on Retail Operations, 2023.
  2. Sousa, Mariana; Martins, Sara; Santos, Maria João; Amorim, Pedro. "Dynamic pricing for multiple substitute perishable products". Paper presented in 6th EURO Working Group Meeting on Retail Operations, 2023.
  3. Martins, Sara; Silva, Beatriz; Amorim, Pedro; Borges, José Luís. "Understanding Customer Willingness to Wait in Grocery E-commerce Operations". Paper presented in 3rd EWG Meeting on Retail Operations, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Amorim, P; DeHoratius, N; Eng Larsson, F; Martins, S. "Customer Preferences for Delivery Service Attributes in Attended Home Delivery". Management Science (2024): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00Z-T1G.
    10.1287/mnsc.2020.01274
  2. Riesenegger, L; Santos, MJ; Ostermeier, M; Martins, S; Amorim, P; Hübner, A. "Minimizing Food Waste in Grocery Store Operations: Literature Review and Research Agenda". Sustainability Analytics and Modeling (2023):
    10.1016/j.samod.2023.100023
  3. Peixoto, A; Martins, S; Amorim, P; Holzapfel, A. "Strategies to improve customer service in delivery time slot management". INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (2023):
    10.1111/itor.13371
  4. Santos, MJ; Martins, S; Amorim, P; Almada Lobo, B. "On the impact of adjusting the minimum life on receipt (MLOR) criterion in food supply chains". OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (2022):
    Published • 10.1016/j.omega.2022.102691
  5. Santos, Maria João; Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "A green lateral collaborative problem under different transportation strategies and profit allocation methods". Journal of Cleaner Production 288 (2021): 125678. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125678.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125678
  6. Martins, Sara; Ostermeier, Manuel; Amorim, Pedro; Hübner, Alexander; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Product-oriented time window assignment for a multi-compartment vehicle routing problem". European Journal of Operational Research 276 3 (2019): 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2019.01.053.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.01.053
  7. Ostermeier, Manuel; Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Hübner, Alexander. "Loading constraints for a multi-compartment vehicle routing problem". OR Spectrum 40 4 (2018): 997-1027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00291-018-0524-4.
    Published • 10.1007/s00291-018-0524-4
  8. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "Delivery mode planning for distribution to brick-and-mortar retail stores: discussion and literature review". Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 30 4 (2017): 785-812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10696-017-9290-x.
    Published • 10.1007/s10696-017-9290-x
  9. Martins, Sara; Amorim, Pedro; Figueira, Gonçalo; Almada-Lobo, Bernardo. "An optimization-simulation approach to the network redesign problem of pharmaceutical wholesalers". Computers & Industrial Engineering 106 (2017): 315-328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2017.01.026.
    Published • 10.1016/j.cie.2017.01.026
  10. Pedro Amorim; Sara Martins; Eduardo Ferian Curcio; Bernardo Almada-Lobo. "Defining the Best distribution Network for Grocery Retail Stores". ERCIM NEWS 105 (2016): https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en105/special/defining-the-best-distribution-network-for-grocery-retail-stores.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Sara Sofia Baltazar Martins. "Retail Distribution Planning to Brick-and-Mortar Stores". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/110501.
Activities

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current Smart Waste Portugal Association (INESC TEC representative)
2016 - Current EURO Working Group (EWG) on Retail Operations
2015 - Current Portuguese Association for Operational Research (APDIO)
Distinctions

Title

2018 Title of European Doctorate
Universidade do Porto, Portugal