Mariana Oliveira is a researcher at the Centre for Management Studies in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). She received her MSc in Biomedical Engineering in December 2018 from IST. For her master's thesis, she developed an optimisation system for elective surgery scheduling in Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Québec, in Canada. She received an award as the 2nd runner-up for the best presentation by an early-career operational researcher in 2019. In February 2020, Mariana enrolled in the Engineering and Management PhD at IST, and is currently working on her thesis titled "Developing Strategies to Improve Operating Room Management" under the supervision of Professor Daniel Santos and Professor Ana Barbosa-Póvoa. Currently, she is also a member of the research teams in two projects named "ImproveOR: Building Decision Support Tools for Improved Operating Room Management" and "Service Integration in Healthcare: Balancing stakeholder interests and workflows in operating rooms", which aim to improve the operating rooms' efficiency using optimisation methods. She published 3 papers in specialised journals and 2 book chapters, and her work was presented at 19 national and international conferences. She supervised a total of 10 master's students. Her main research focus is operations and logistics management, namely the development of mathematical models and process optimisation.

Keywords: Operations Research | Optimisation | Health services