Lluís Miquel Plà Aragonés, Ph.D.


Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics
Universitat de Lleida
JaumeII, 73
E-25003 Lleida
Spain 

Tel:+34-973 70 33 18
Fax: +34-973 70 27 16
E-mail: lmpla@matematica.udl.es
 


Research interests

Operations Research mainly in Agriculture.  Herd Management and Markov Decision Models. Decision models applied to livestock production systems. Decision Support Systems. Planning and management, performance analysis and optimization of natural resources, deterministic and stochastic scheduling.


Education


Awards


Professional Experience

Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Laws and Economics, 2/92-2/93
Institut de Recerca i Tecnologies Agroalimentàries (IRTA) , Lleida, SPAIN
Research Fellow, Area of Animal Production, UdL-IRTA R+D Center, 2/92-present
Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Associate Professor, Faculty of Laws and Economics, Dept. of Mathematics, 2/93-present
Army of Spain, Lleida, Spain
Second Lieutenant (SEFOCUMA-ET), 4th Engineer Division, 11/93-4/94



Publications

Scientific papers. Indexed SCI

Other Scientific papers


Some recent work under review


Refereed conference proceedings

Books & Book chapters

PhD Dissertation

Plà, L.M. (2001). Sow herd modelling for practical on-farm decision support. PhD Dissertation, Dep. of Mathematics, University of Lleida. 


Teaching

Mathematics (1st quarter), Faculty of Law and Economics, UdL. 

Financial Mathematics (2nd quarter), Faculty of Law and Economics, UdL. 

Applied Statistics (2nd  quarter), Agronomic School, UdL

Simulation Methods applied to agricultural Engineering (Doctorate course), UdL.  


Conference Presentations

COMPSTAT, Barcelona, Spain (09/96); EFITA 97, Copenhaguen, Denmark (07/97), Workshop on Decision Analysis Applications, Madrid, Spain (6/97),  EFITA 99, Seminar on Herd Management Optimisation, Bonn, Germany (7/99);  EURO, Budapest, Hungary (6/00); IFORS meeting, Edinburg, UK (7/02); CLAIO, Concepción, Chile (11/02); EURO, Istanbul, Turkey (7/03); INFORMS annual meeting, Atlanta, USA (10/03); CLAIO, La Havana, Cuba (11/04); APMOD, Madrid, Spain (06/06); EURO, Reykjavik, Iceland (7/06); CLAIO, Montevideo, Uruguay (11/06); EURO, Prage, Czech Rep.(7/07); CLAIO, Cartagena, Colombia (09/08);OR50, York, UK (09/08);INFORMS Washington, USA (10/08); EURO, Bonn, Germany (07/09); EURO, Lisbon, Portugal (07/10); IFORS, Melbourne, Australia (07/11); EURO, Vilnius, Lituania (07/12); EURO, Rome, Italy (07/13) ; IFORS, Barcelona, E (07/14); EURO, Glasgow, UK (07/15), EURO, Poznan, PL (07/16), CLAIO, Santiago, CL (09/2016), BigDSSAgro, Montevideo, U (09/2017), EURO,Valencia, E (07/2018), BigDSSAgro, Lleida, E (07/2018), CLAIO, Lima (09/2018), BigDSSAgro, Valparaiso, CL (09/2019)



More than therty nine presentations in national congress or meetings on Statisitcs and Operational Research and Agricultural Economics.


Invited Seminars & Talks

Université de Perpignan (3/98); University of Bonn (6/99); Rey Juan Carlos University (12/00 and 11/01).
University of Sevilla (5/05); Public University of Navarre (6/05); Benemérita Universidad de Puebla (Mx, 01/06);
Universidad de Chile (11/06); Cranfield University (04/08); Universidad de Holguin (Cu, 02/09); Universidad de Talca (Ch, 10/09); Tilburg University (NL, 07/10); Mendel University (Cz, 09/10); Copenhaguen University (DK, 05/11); Tilburg University (NL, 09/12); Universidad de Talca (Ch, 09/13); Universidad Nacional Santiago Antunez de Mayolo (Pe, 09/2013); Universidad de Talca (Ch, 04/14); University of Leeds (UK, 07/15), Public University of Navarre (2/16); Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago (CL 03/2018); ELAVIO Chile (03/2018); Landscape Management Praha (CZ 09/2018); Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Santiago (CL 09/2019)


Others

Co-ordinator of the EURO Working Group of Operations Research in Agriculture and Forest Management 

Co-ordinator of the BigDSS Agro project: Big Data and Decision Support Systems in Agriculture


Updated 07/06/21