CV of M. Grazia Speranza Education 1980: Master in Applied Mathematics at the University of Milan; 1983: Advanced Diploma in Applied Mathematics at the University of Milan. Positions 1983-1987: Assistant professor at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Mi- lan; 1986-1987: Collaborator for the Istituto per le Applicazioni della Matematica e dell'Informatica of the CNR; 1987-1990: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Udine; 1990-1994: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and business at the University of Brescia; 1994-: Full professor at the Faculty of Economics and business at the University of Brescia; from Nov. 1998 to Nov. 2000: President of the Research Council at the Uni- versity of Brescia; from Nov. 2000 to Nov. 2002: Vice-Rector of the University of Brescia; 2001-2002: President of the study program in Economia e gestione dell'informazione e della comunicazione of the Faculty of Economics and business at the Uni- versity of Brescia; from 1/11/2002 to 31/10/2008: Dean of the Faculty of Economics and business at the University of Brescia. From 2005 member of the Board of the Deans of the Faculties of Economics and business; from 1/11/2008 to 31/10/2010: Visiting Professor at London School of Eco- nomics; 2006-: President of the Research center on 'Models for the economy and manage- ment of transport and logistics'. Roles in scientific associations 1 • President of TSL (Transportation Science and Logistic) society of INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) from 2013; • Member of the Executive Committee of EURO (association of European Op- erational Research Societies) from 2008 to 2013; • Vice-President of IFORS (International Federation of Operations Research Societies), representing EURO from 2008 to 2009; • President of EURO from 2011 to 2012; • Member of the Committee for the "Best Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) Dissertation Prize" of INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) in 2002; • Member of the jury for the "EURO Excellence in Practice Award" in 2007 and 2009; • Chair of the jury for the "EURO Excellence in Practice Award" in 2010; • Member of the jury for the "Robert M. Herman Lifetime Achievement Award" for INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) of IN- FORMS in 2007 and 2009; • Chair of the jury for the "Robert M. Herman Lifetime Achievement Award" for INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) of INFORMS in 2011 (winner: Prof. Nathan Gartner); • Member of the jury for the Francesco Paris Award of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modeling; • Member of the founding group of the EURO Working Group on Routing and Logistics (VeRoLog); • Member of the Board of the Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa (AIRO) from 1990 to 1996. Scientific interests The main scientific interests include: • optimal methods, branch-and-cut algorithms, branch-and-price algorithms for mixed integer linear programming problems; • heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid heuristics for mixed integer linear program- ming problems; • optimization problems in logistics and supply chain management; 2 • vehicle routing problems; • dynamic routing problems; • combinatorial optimization; • worst-case analysis, competitive analysis; • optimization in finance. Editorial activities She has taken editorial responsibilities as: • associate editor of Transportation Research (from 2000 to 2003); • member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research B (from 2001 to 2003); • area editor for Logistics, Distribution, Inventory and Transportation of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (from 2009 to 2010); • associate editor of Transportation Science (from 2003); • editor of ITOR (International Transactions of Operations Research) (from 2009); • area editor for Optimization problems in finance of 4OR (from 2009); • associate editor of TOP (official journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research) (from 2012); • editor of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics (from 2011); • member of the Editorial board of the EURO Journal on Computational Opti- mization (from 2011); • editor of the International Journal of Portfolio Optimization (from 2011); • editor of the Mexican Journal of Operations Research (from 2011); • editor of the open access journal "Advances in Operations Research"; • member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the volume "Hybrid Algo- rithms for Service, Computing and Manufacturing Systems: Routing, Schedul- ing and Availability Solutions". She has been editor of books and special issues of journals: • editor (with P.Serafini) of the issue: "L'innovazione tecnologica nelle tecniche gestionali", Ricerca Operativa 55, 1990; 3 • editor (with A.Lewandowski and P.Serafini) of the volume "Methodology, im- plementation and applications of Decision Support Systems", CISM Courses and Lectures 320, Springer Verlag, 1991; • "guest editor" of a special issue of vol.71, 1993 of the European Journal of Operational Research; • "guest editor" of the special issue "Models and algorithms for planning and scheduling problems" of vol.72, 1997 of Discrete Applied Mathematics; • "co-editor" of volume Advances in distribution logistics, Lecture Notes in Eco- nomics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag, vol.460, 1998; • "co-editor" of volume New trends in distribution logistics, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag, vol. 480, 1999; • "co-editor" of volume Quantitative approaches to distribution logistics and sup- ply chain management, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Sys- tems, Springer-Verlag, vol. 519, 2002; • "co-editor" of volume of Annals of Operations Research "Optimization in Transportation", 2004; • "co-editor" of the special issue of Computers and Operations Research "Odysseus 2003 Second International Workshop on Freight Transportation Logistics", vol. 34, Issue 6, June 2007; • "co-editor" of the special issue of Networks "Route 2011", Altea (Spain). Invited speaker She has been invited speaker at conferences: • "Summer School Programming 90", Varna (Bulgaria), 20-30 May 1990; • Workshop "Models and algorithms for planning and scheduling problems", Wernigerode (Germany), 22-26 May 1995; • AIRO conference, Perugia, 16-20 September 1996; • "International Summer Institute on Production Scheduling", St. Vincent, 15- 26 September 1997; • Symposium on Mathematical models of inventories, Aahrus (Denmark), 19-21 August 1998; • workshop CNR-CENSIS "Soluzioni intelligenti - La logistica come strategia produttiva ", Rome, 20 April 2000; 4 • Workshop on "Distribution systems: location and vehicle routing", Montr´eal, 2-6 December 2002; • Optimization days 2005, Montr´eal(Canada), 8-11 May 2005 (together with John Nash); • Operations Research 2006, Karlsrhue (Germany), 5-8 September 2006; • 18th RAMP Symposium, 12-13 October 2006, Kyoto (Japan); • School "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications", Erice (Sicily), Septem- ber 8-16, 2008; • ROUTE 2009, ROLIGHED, Skodsborg (Denmark) 21-24 June 2009; • Third Workshop GT Transport et Logistique, Le Havre (France), 6 November 2009; • TRANSLOG (Transportation and Logistics), Renaca (Chile), 8-11 December 2009; • Zinal 2010, Zinal (Switzerland), 17-21 January 2010; • Workshop, Lund (Sweden), 19-21 May 2010; • ALIO/INFORMS Conference, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 6-9 June 2010; • Tristan VII, Troms (Norway), 20-25 June 2010; • Summer school, Breda (The Netherlands), 29 August - 2 September 2011; • INOC 2011, International Network Optimization Conference, Hamburg (Ger- many), 13-16 June 2011; • School "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications", Erice (Sicily), 25 September- 3 October 2011; • Winter School on optimization in logistics and transportation, Lisbon (Portu- gal), 16-20 January 2012; • Winterschool on models for logistics and supply chain management, Breda (The Netherlands), 30 January-3 February 2012; • International conference on Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Ankara (Turkey), 3-5 October 2012; • Canadian Operations research conference, Vancouver (Canada), 27-29 May 2013; • VeRoLog2013 workshop, Southampton (UK), 8-10 July 2013; 5 • 10th International Workshop on Cutting, Packing and Related Topics, Gaienhofen- Horn, Lake Constance (Germany), September 11-15, 2013; • GO meeting, Sirmione (Italy), 6-10 July 2014. She has been invited to give seminars at: • I.A.S.I. - CNR - Rome • University of Bergamo • University of Brescia • University of Lisbon (Portugal) • University of Lubiana (Yugoslavia) • University of Passau (Germany) • University of Harvard, Massachussets (U.S.A.) • University of Venice • University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin (U.S.A.) • Technical University of Berlin (Germany) • University of Augsburg (Germany) • University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) • University of Pisa • University of Naples • University of Copenhagen (Denmark) • University of Maryland (U.S.A.) • University of Milan • ETH Zurich (Switzerland) • Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) • Braunschweig University (Germany) • University of Veszprem (Hungary) • London School of Economics (UK) • Lancaster University (UK) 6 • Loughborough University (UK) • Kent University, Canterbury (UK) • University of Graz • Technical University of Graz • University of Iowa (U.S.A.) • Universit de Montr´eal(Canada) • Northwestern University (U.S.A.) • University of Southampton (UK) • University of Salerno • Ecole des Mines of Nantes (France) • Technische Universiteit