OPTIMAConsulting from our Members
Need Help with a Decision Problem?
If you’re facing a complex decision-making challenge, we’d be happy to help. OPTIMA can connect you with researchers whose expertise best matches your problem and facilitate introductions, collaborative projects, and contract research opportunities.
For organisations seeking a lower-cost entry point, we can also explore student internships or longer-term PhD projects aligned with your needs.
Get in touch and tell us about your challenge. We’ll help connect you with the right expertise and the most suitable pathway forward.
Brought to you by the MiniZinc Developers
Several OPTIMA members from the MiniZinc team have launched deciZns, a specialist consultancy helping organisations tackle complex strategic and operational decision-making challenges through optimisation, decision intelligence, and advanced modelling.
As core developers of the globally recognised MiniZinc modelling language, the deciZns team brings deep expertise in optimisation modelling, solver technologies, and decision support systems. Their services include MiniZinc consulting, model development, solver performance improvement, and tailored optimisation solutions for applications such as scheduling, rostering, configuration, and resource planning.
Combining world-leading technical expertise with practical industry experience, deciZns helps organisations make better decisions, improve performance, and achieve more reliable outcomes.
Two-wayPartnerships
Financial Partnership
OPTIMA is seeking industry and not-for-profit partners with significant optimisation and decision-making challenges. Partners contribute a project fee and a small in-kind commitment to support the supervision of a PhD student. In return, OPTIMA provides a funded PhD scholarship and assembles an expert supervisory team to work with the student on developing solutions to your real-world problem. As an OPTIMA partner, your organisation becomes part of our network of more than 160 researchers, students, and industry professionals, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and access to world-leading expertise.
This is a genuine partnership that delivers benefits for both parties: students gain practical experience tackling important challenges, while organisations gain access to cutting-edge research that can improve operations, decision-making, and impact.
Not-for-profit organisations may be eligible for discounted membership rates. Contact us to discuss your challenge and whether an OPTIMA partnership could be the right fit.