Abdellah Salhi is a Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Essex. He was educated to a degree level at the University of Constantine, Algeria. He has obtained his Ph.D. in Interior-Point Methods from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK. His research interests are in the design, analysis, implementation, and application of OR algorithms. He has led a number of research projects and contributed to the ESRC-funded Business and Local Government Data Research Centre. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers.