{"id":32,"date":"2014-04-25T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelmark.fi\/ose\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:07:21","slug":"the-research-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/the-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The research group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"symple-column symple-two-third symple-column-first   symple-all\">\n<p>The Optimization and Systems Engineering (OSE) group at \u00c5bo Akademi University is an interdisciplinary research group focusing on theory and methods in optimization and systems analysis, as well as their applications in science and engineering. The OSE group bridges the systems engineering, systems theory and mathematical disciplines at \u00c5bo Akademi University and represent the kernel of expertise at the university. The group was appointed an internal Center of Excellence within research at the university for the time-period 2010-14.<\/p>\n<p>The research group consists of professors, post doctoral researchers, PhD students, Master&#8217;s students and technical personnel; in total about 30 persons.<\/p>\n<h4>Group leadership<\/h4>\n<p>The principal investigator is professor Tapio Westerlund. More information about the PI, including a short bio can be found <a title=\"Principal investigator\" href=\"\/ose\/principal-investigator\/\">here<\/a>. The research group is coordinated by a <a title=\"Steering group\" href=\"\/ose\/steering-group\/\">steering group<\/a>, responsible for strategic decision making.<\/p>\n<h4>International scientific panel<\/h4>\n<p>Forming a basis for the international collaboration is the <a title=\"International scientific panel\" href=\"\/ose\/international-scientific-panel\/\">International Scientific Panel<\/a> of the OSE group. It consists of the following five members, all renowned researchers in the OSE field:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Professor Ignacio Grossmann<\/strong>, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Efstratios Pistikopoulos<\/strong>, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Professor Leo Liberti<\/strong>, LIX, \u00c9cole Polytechnique, France, and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Montaz Ali<\/strong>, The Centre for Systems and Engineering, University of Witwatersrand, South-Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Affiliated researchers<\/h4>\n<p>Affiliated\u00a0researchers at \u00c5bo Akademi University include Prof. Hannu Toivonen (Process Control Laboratory), Prof. Ralf \u00d6stermark (School of Business and Economics), Acting Prof. Frank Pettersson (Process Design and Systems Engineering) as well as \u00a0Prof. em. G\u00f6ran H\u00f6gn\u00e4s (Mathematics and Statistics) and Prof. em. \u00a0Olof Staffans (Mathematics and Statistics). Prof. Jukka Corander, part-time professor in statistics at \u00c5AU, and Dr. Ray P\u00f6rn, lecturer at Novia University of Applied Sciences, are additional important in-house collaborators.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"symple-column symple-one-third symple-column-last   symple-all\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Picture from the annual OSE seminar in 2013.\" width=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-135x90.jpg 135w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/files\/2014\/09\/AST_seminarium-11-80x53.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"symple-box   gray none  symple-all\" style=\"text-align:left; width:100%;\"> \nThe OSE group consists of about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10\u00a0professors<\/li>\n<li>10\u00a0post doctoral researchers<\/li>\n<li>15 PhD students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/ose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}