Subject to: Frederic Semet
Fr\xe9d\xe9ric Semet received his PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique F\xe9d\xe9rale de Lausanne. He is full professor at Centrale Lille, France. His main research activities are in the field of combinatorial optimization applied to location problems, transportation network design problems, and vehicle routing problems. These related problems are encountered from the strategic decision level to the operational decision level in transportation chain management. Fr\xe9d\xe9ric Semet is and has been involved in various grant-funded and collaborative projects with transportation and logistics companies. Currently, he is the scientific leader of a project dedicated to urban distribution in the context of e-commerce and of a regional project on urban logistics. In addition, he is a member of the steering committees of the Verolog (Vehicle Routing and Logistics) group of the European operational research society EURO, of the Groupe de Recherche en Recherche Op\xe9rationnelle (GdR RO of the CNRS. Finally, Fr\xe9d\xe9ric Semet is, since 2015, deputy director of the Lille Research Center in Computer Science, Signal and Automation (CRIStAL) gathering about 200 professors and researchers. Fr\xe9d\xe9ric Semet has authored or co-authored more than 75 scientific papers or book chapters. His h-index is 40 (Google Scholar). He has been an associate editor or member of the editorial board of Advances in Operations Research, Computers & Operations Research, and INFOR. He received the President Medal of the British Operational Research Society in 1999 and was awarded the 1st Prize for scientific contribution to the EURO/ROADEF 2016 challenge.