Member of the EPSRC Mathematics Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematics(August 2008 - present)

Member of the EPSRC ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) Strategic Advisory Team (May 2003-October 2005 including a 6 month extension to the two year term)

Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (2000-2002, 2003-2005, 2005-2009, 2009-2013)

Member of the Jury for the (EURO) Excellence in Practice Award 2009 and 2010

Member of the Jury for the (EURO) Gold Medal 2007

Chairman of the Steering Committee of the EPSRC Inter-disciplinary Scheduling Network (May 2001-April 2004)

Chairman of the Management Board and Member of the Executive Committee of the EPSRC LANCS (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton) Initiative on Foundational Operational Research.  This is a £13M Science and Innovation consortium between Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton (1st September 2008-present)

Member of the External Advisory Board of the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre on Statistics and Operational Research (STOR-i) at Lancaster University (November 2009-present)

Member of the Advisory Board of the EPSRC SEBASE (Software Engineering By Automated SEarch) initiative (June 2006 - May 2010)

Member of the Executive Committee of the EPSRC National Training Centre for Operational Research (1st October 2006 – present)

Member (Chairman since August 2008) of the International Advisory Board of the BBSRC/EPSRC Centre for Plant Integrative Biology.  This is a £9.2M initiative which is based across several schools at Nottingham (January 2007 - December 2011)

EPSRC nominated Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (1st January 2007 - 31st December 2010)

Member of the Advisory Board of the EPSRC IDEAS Factory Network on Productivity (June 2005-June 2009)

Member of the Steering Committee of the EPSRC Airport Energy Technologies Network (June 2009 – present)

Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Poool of Reviewers (April 2006 - present)

Treasurer of the Committee of Professors in Operational Research (COPIOR) (January 2011 - present)

Member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC) (March 2005 - present)

Member of the General Council of the OR Society (January 2007-December 2010)

Member of the Education and Research Committee of the OR Society – responsible for liaison with EPSRC (March 2005 – December 2010)

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering (Faraday Partnership) (June 2003 - present)

Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA), University of Birmingahm (May 2003 - April 2007)

Member of the International Advisory Panel for the Multi-disciplinary International Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA) series of conferences (2003-present)

Member of the International Advisory Board of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 25-28, 2007

Co-ordinator and Chairman of the Advisory Committee (April 1996-August 2006) of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (WATT). This group is funded by EURO (The European Association of Operational Research Societies)

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