Doina Olaru is currently lecturing in Management and Organisations at the UWA Business School. She was educated in Romania, at the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest and has both academia and industry experience.
Doina worked as railway engineer for the Romanian State Railways and as a Post Doctoral Research Scientist with CSIRO. Her teaching in Romania and Australia covered transport planning and operation, optimisation and simulation, data analysis, decision making, computer modelling applications in different areas of business.
Doina has published academic papers in international journals and presented at leading international conferences on topics such as transport planning methods, travel and activity analysis, business networks, environmental and social impacts of transport, and exposure to traffic related air pollutants.
Key Research
- Transport planning and operation
- Travel behaviour modelling
- Accessibility
- Environmental impacts of transport, i.e.life cycle analysis of fuels and exposure to traffic related pollutants
- Network analysis
- Data mining and artificial intelligence applications
- Others: collaborates with numerous colleagues from marketing and management in research areas such as business networks, tourism, information management, multivariate data analysis and discrete choice modelling.
- Company:The University of Western Australia
- www.uwa.edu.au