Cândida Mourão

Biografia

MARIA CÂNDIDA MOURÃO, Ph.D., is a full professor in the area of Operational Research (OR) and a member of the Executive Committee at the Mathematics Department of the ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisboa, where she received her doctoral degree in 1998. Having served on ISEG’s Pedagogic Council she is a member of the School Council, of the CMAFcIO – Centre of Mathematics, Fundamental Applications and Operations Research and is the coordinator of the OR scientific area at ISEG.

Her interests lie especially with the areas of Combinatorial Optimization, Heuristics, Mixed Integer Linear Programming Models and Attractiveness in Arc Routing Problems to address challenging problems arising in network design, transportation, distribution or logistics.

She is a published book co-author and maintains an active research activity evidenced by original papers contribution to EJOR, Computers & Operations Research and Networks while also participating as a reviewer. She is regularly involved in organising and scientific committees of international/national conferences. Her tutoring responsibilities encompass coordinating and lecturing several curricular units, mentoring and guidance of MSc and PhD thesis and internships at different private and public organisations.

She remains committed to link academic research with real life scenarios thus contributing to enhance organisation’s best practices and results.