Alexandra Brintrup

Having trained as a manufacturing systems engineer, Alexandra Brintrup obtained her PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Cranfield University for her work in Genetic Algorithms. She then worked at the ABN AMRO Bank as a quantitative analyst, before joining DIAL for her postdoctoral studies in multi-agent systems in manufacturing. She was later appointed as research fellow at the Complex Agent Based Dynamic Networks (CABDyN) research centre at the University of Oxford, where she studied supply chains from a complex networks perspective. Between 2012-2015 she was a University Lecturer at Cranfield University. She joined the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge in 2016, where she leads the Supply Chain AI Lab. She is external faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, leads also Digital Manufacturing at the Alan Turing Institute and is a fellow of Darwin College.
Over the past decade Alexandra has advised policy makers, served in a number of scientific committees, and worked with Boeing, Rolls Royce, Jaguar Land Rover, Suzuki and Procter and Gamble on a variety of projects in these areas.