Maria João Alves

Maria João Alves received a degree in Computers Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra in 1989 and a PhD in Management (speciality Operational Research) from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC). She is Assistant Professor at FEUC and co-coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Management – Decision Aiding Science. She is also a researcher at the INESC Coimbra and CeBER R&D institutes. Her research activities are mainly developed in multiobjective optimization, in particular multiobjective linear, mixed-integer, fractional and bilevel programming. Her interests include exact methods and metaheuristics (evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization), applications and decision support systems. She is co-author of scientific papers published in several international journals (such as, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, Applied Mathematics and Computation, among others), an article in the Encyclopaedia of Optimization, one book in Portuguese (2003) and a book of the series “Euro Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research”, entitled Multiobjective Linear and Integer Programming, Springer, 2016.