Roberto Roberti is an Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Department of Operations Analytics. In 2012, he obtained a PhD in Control System Engineering and Operational Research from the University of Bologna. His PhD dissertation received the Premio Lorenzo Brunetta and the VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize. His research focuses on the development of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems arising in the fields of Transportation and Logistics. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, Computers &amp; Operations Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Transportation Science.

Subject to: Mauricio Resende

"Subject to" offers a series of informal conversations with relevant figures in the fields of Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics, and they are hosted by Anand Subramanian, an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil. 

About the host:
Anand was born and raised in João Pessoa, Brazil. His parents are Indian immigrants who moved to Brazil in the early 1970s. He is an author of more 60 articles published in prestigious international journals.