Alberto Lacort
- Position
- PhD student
- Category
- Doctoral students
- Department
- Departamento de Organización de Empresas
Research interests
- hospital bed management
- patient flow simulation
- surgical blocks
Alberto Lacort is a PhD student in Industrial Engineering in a cotutelle between Polytechnique Montréal and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), supervised by Nadia Lahrichi. He belongs to the ROGLE group of the Departamento de Organización de Empresas and has worked at the UPV as a senior research technician since November 2023, with an ACIF predoctoral contract from the Conselleria de Educación, Universidades y Empleo for the project "Planning and scheduling of hospital operations".
He researches hospital bed management and patient flow simulation. His lines of work are strategies to admit, discharge and reconfigure beds, discrete event simulation of inpatient units and the validation of the models, and capacity management of surgical blocks, with digital twins of a sterilisation unit. In 2023 he was a visiting predoctoral fellow at the Politecnico di Milano, with Andrea Matta, on the automatic generation of digital twins.
He holds a bachelor's degree (2018, with a double degree from the École Centrale de Lyon) and a master's degree (2020) in Industrial Engineering from the UPV. He received the Research Excellence Award (Emerging Researcher) at the 4th Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV (2025), and the Best Paper award in the Logistics and Operations track at the 3rd Symposium (2024). He takes part in organising conferences and symposia and reviews manuscripts for WPOM.
His personal website is allabur.webs.upv.es.
Publications (10)
- Academic Writing with Agentic AI: A Context-Engineering Workflow for Conference Contributions(2026) · 4th Conference in Business Research & Management: The AI Era
- Autoliderazgo en Enfermería: Una perspectiva multinivel sobre el compromiso laboral y la eficacia en organizaciones sanitarias(2026) · XL AEDEM International Annual Meeting
- Discrete event simulation for hospital inpatient flow modelling: A review of validation methods(2025) · Organizational engineering, coping with complexity
- Gestión de la capacidad de los bloques quirúrgicos: Perspectivas de una revisión(2025) · IV Simposio Predoctoral del Departamento de Organización de Empresas UPV
- Hospital bed management modelling: A conceptual framework(2025) · Decision sciences
- Surgical Block Capacity Management: Insights From a Review(2025) · IV Simposio Predoctoral del Departamento de Organización de Empresas UPV
- Hospital bed management strategies(2024) · IX Encuentro de Estudiantes de Doctorado de la Universitat Politècnica de València
- Insights from a review of hospital bed management modelling(2024) · III Simposio Predoctoral del Departamento de Organización de Empresas UPV
- Simulation of patient flow considering bed management in a university hospital(2022) · I Simposio Predoctoral del Departamento de Organización de Empresas UPV
- Simulation of patient flow considering bed management in a university hospital(2022) · Journées de l'optimisation 2022
They are linked by name match in the author list. If one is missing, write to the group director.
Research projects (1)
- MODELOS DE SIMULACIÓN Y DE OPTIMIZACIÓN PARA LA PREVISIÓN, PLANIFICACIÓN Y PROGRAMACIÓN DE OPERACIONES EN HOSPITALES2023 – 2027 · GENERALITAT VALENCIANA