Subject to: Maria Grazia Speranza
M. Grazia Speranza is a full professor of Operations Research at the University of Brescia, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Deputy Rector. She is a former President of EURO (association of European Operational Research Societies) and of TSL (Transportation Science and Logistics society of INFORMS). As EURO President she founded the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization and the EURO Journal on Decision Processes. She is currently President of IFORS (International Federation of the Operational Research Societies).
Grazia’s research focuses on mixed integer programming and combinatorial optimization with applications to transportation, supply chain management, scheduling and portfolio selection. She models real problems, designs exact and heuristic algorithms, and applies worst-case analysis to off-line problems and competitive analysis to on-line problems. Recent research is oriented towards the study of routing problems enabled by technological developments. Grazia is author of about 200 papers that appeared in international journals and volumes. She has been plenary speaker at several international conferences and member of the scientific committee of the major international conferences in the field. She was visiting professor at the London School of Economics and at Brunel University during her sabbatical and has given talks and seminars at many universities around the world. She has been guest editor of special issues of journals, editor of several international journals and is co-editor-in-chief of the series of books ‘EURO Advanced Tutorials in Operational Research’.
Grazia has been a member of many evaluation committees, including the European Research Council (ERC) mathematics panel. She is included in https://100esperte.it/ and in the book ‘100 donne contro gli stereotipi per la scienza', Egea, 2017 as one of the best 100 Italian women in the STEM area. In 2019 she was awarded with the Laurea honoris causa by the University of Freiburg, Switzerland.
She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of A2A, the 15th largest Italian company. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ‘Fondazione Marta Nocivelli’ and ‘Fondazione Comunità Bresciana’.