Dr Euan Barlow
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Management Science
Personal statement
I am a Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde. I am Director of Knowledge Exchange for the Department, and co-Director of the Informed Decision Analytics (IDeA) Centre. I regularly work as part of multi-disciplinary collaborative teams with engineers and scientists from other disciplines. My interests are generally in developing and applying modelling techniques to real-world problems, working closely with industry to produce practical solutions to specific problems through purpose-built tools.
Area of Expertise
I have worked in a wide variety of fields, and have developed expertise in a wide range of skills and techniques from the mathematical sciences. Some examples include: discrete-event simulation, multi-objective evolutionary optimisation algorithms, Markov decision processes, expert elicitation for model development, and mathematical modelling of acoustics.
Publications
- Optimizing fuel selection in CANDU reactors
- Devereux Michael, West Graeme, Barlow Euan, Revie Matthew, Young Andrew
- Fifth Annual Conference on Disruptive, Innovative, and Emerging Technologies in the Nuclear Industry (2024)
- Priorities for tackling orthopaedic waiting times in NHS Scotland
- van der Meer Robert, Barlow Euan
- Scotland Policy Conferences keynote seminar (2024)
- What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study
- Barlow Euan, Morton Alec, Dabak Saudamini, Engels Sven, Isaranuwatchai Wanrudee, Teerawattananon Yot, Chalkidou Kalipso
- Health Care Management Science Vol 25, pp. 460-483 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-022-09594-4
- A model-based study to estimate the health and economic impact of health technology assessment in Thailand
- Kingkaew Pritaporn, Budtarad Nuttakarn, Khuntha Sarayuth, Barlow Euan, Morton Alec, Isranuwatchai Wanrudee, Teerawattananon Yot, Painter Chris
- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Vol 38 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462322000277
- Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics
- Barlow Euan, Morton Alec, Megiddo Itamar, Colson Abigail
- Social Science and Medicine Vol 298 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114818
- A performance-centred approach to optimising maintenance of complex systems
- Barlow E, Bedford T, Revie M, Tan J, Walls L
- European Journal of Operational Research Vol 292, pp. 579-595 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.005
Teaching
I teach on various modules delivered by Management Science for Masters courses, teaching a range of statistical and analytical modelling techniques.
Research Interests
During my research career I have worked in the fields of metrology, robotics and automation, ocean and marine engineering, renewable energy, maintenance and reliability, water engineering and ultrasonic engineering. Tackling this diverse set of real-world problems has led to my interest in a wide range of modelling and analysis techniques from operational research, mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
Some examples include developing discrete event simulation tools combining scheduling models with weather forecasting models to support offshore wind farm installation projects, developing novel techniques for solving large-scale multi-objective non-linear optimisation problems to support the optimal design of water distribution networks, and developing stochastic dynamic programming models to support maintenance decisions of complex energy systems.
Professional Activities
- National Orthopaedic Waiting List Projections - Impact of National Treatment Centres
- Speaker
- 5/9/2024
- Scottish Orthopaedic Service Delivery Group (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2024
- UK KE Hub for Mathematical Sciences (External organisation)
- Member
- 2023
- National Orthopaedic Delivery Group (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2023
- Centre for Sustainable Delivery, NHS Scotland (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2022
- Operational Research Group of Scotland (External organisation)
- Member
- 2014
Projects
- KTP - Fix Visual Effects Limited. New technologies to make the production pipeline more efficient from end to end
- Paton, Steve (Principal Investigator) Barlow, Euan (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Technology Innovation in Defence-platform Energy-efficiency
- Turan, Osman (Principal Investigator) Aktas, Batuhan (Co-investigator) Atlar, Mehmet (Co-investigator) Barlow, Euan (Co-investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Jennett, Kyle (Co-investigator) Paton, Steve (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Seth, Sampan (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Wright, George (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026
- Offshore Wind Operational Models - SSE Training and Integration into Standard Development Process
- McMillan, David (Principal Investigator) Barlow, Euan (Researcher)
- Series of engagements carried out in late 2019/ early 2020 to integrate Strathclyde Operational models for Offshore wind into SSE systems. As part of realising benefits of the TIC LCPE programme.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2021
- KTP - Maru Syngro
- Barlow, Euan (Principal Investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Roper, Marc (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2018 - 14-Jan-2020
- Multi-Level Robust Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Practice
- Akartunali, Kerem (Principal Investigator) Barlow, Euan (Co-investigator)
- 20-Jan-2018 - 19-Jan-2021
- KTP-Scottish Water
- Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Arulselvan, Ashwin (Co-investigator) Barlow, Euan (Co-investigator) Quigley, John (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator)
- 08-Jan-2016 - 07-Jan-2018
Contact
Dr
Euan
Barlow
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Management Science
Email: euan.barlow@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4598