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

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

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 and 2005-2009)

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

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

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 - present).

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

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

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

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scheduling (published by Springer) (June 1998-present)

Area Editor (for Combinatorial Optimisation) of The Journal of Heuristics (published by Springer) (January 2001-present)

Associate Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing (January 2004-present)

Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (January 1998-present)

Member of the Editorial Board of Memetic Computing (published by Springer) (September 2007-present)

Guest Co-editor of a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) on "Evolutionary and Meta-heuristic Scheduling", issue 177 (3), March 2007

Guest Co-editor of a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) on "Timetabling and Rostering", issue 153(1), February 2004

Guest Co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Annals of Operations Research (AOR) on "Cutting, Packing and Space Allocation"

Guest Co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Annals of Operations Research (AOR) on "Computational Intelligence in Scheduling"

Guest Co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Annals of Operations Research (AOR) on “Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling”

Guest Co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of Computers and Operations Research (COR) on “Transport Scheduling: Meeting the Challenges of Scale, Complexity and Uncertainty”

Director of Research for eventMAP Ltd . This is a spin out company from our research group which is concerned with commercialising our automated timetabling research technologies. It is a joint venture with Queen's University, Belfast.

Director of Aptia Solutions Ltd. This is a spin out company from our research group which is concerned with commercialising our cutting and packing research technologies.

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 MISTA (Multi-disciplinary International Scheduling: Theory and Applications) series of conferences (2003-present)

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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