Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço is Professor at University Pompeu Fabra and a BSE Affiliated Professor. She has a B.A. and Master degree in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, New York, USA.
She has been involved in different research projects and consulting for firms in the area of Operations Research and Logistics. Helena has published several articles in prestigious international scientific journals and has presented her work at international congresses and conferences.
Helena teaches at various undergraduate, master’s and PhD`s programs. She is currently the director of the Business Analytics Research Group and a researcher at the Center for Operational Research at the University of Lisbon. Her research interests include Operations Research, Scheduling, Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Iterated Local Search, Heuristic Search Optimization, Vehicle Routing, Job-Shop Scheduling, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Production and Operations Management.
Working Papers
Publications
Bruno Miguel Soares Vieira, Jésica de Armas Adrián and Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço
Optimizing an integrated home care problem: A heuristic-based decision-support system
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol.114, September 2022, 10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105062
Jésica de Armas Adrián, Jessica Rodríguez, Bruno Miguel Soares Vieira and Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço