Bryan Galarza Montenegro

I am an Operations Research Expert passionate about designing algorithms that improve decision-making in complex, real-world systems. My fascination with optimization challenges has shaped a career focused on transportation, logistics, and healthcare.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, working on the STRAUSS project, which develops innovative and sustainable solutions for urban logistics, with a particular focus on reducing the environmental impact of city freight flows. Previously, I served as Lead Operations Research Expert at Triptomatic, where I guided research, development, and implementation of combinatorial optimization methods for on-demand healthcare transportation in a VLAIO-funded project on automatic dispatching. Before that, I worked at Atlas Copco as an Improvement Consultant, optimizing packaging policies for compressor parts.

I hold a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Antwerp, where my research focused on the design and optimization of semi-flexible bus services. I also obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering Science: Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Ghent University. Over the years, I have published multiple papers on intelligent transportation systems and collaborated with both academia and industry to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

My main research interests include urban logistics, non-emergency medical transportation, and public transport, with a strong focus on metaheuristics, exact methods, and data-driven optimization approaches.