Athanasia Karakitsiou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Administration of the International Hellenic University, Greece. She holds a PhD in supply chain optimization from the Department of Production Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Shee has published in the field of Operations Research and Optimization in international journals such as Annals of Operational Research, Operational Research and others. She has written and edited three books. Her current research interest is focused on the use of optimization methods to problems in logistics and supply chain management.
Athanasios Migdalas is professor in Industrial Logistics at the University of Technology, Sweden, Department of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering, Quality Technology and Logistics. He has published in the field of Operations Research and Optimization in journals such as Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematical Programming, European Journal of Operational Research, Computational Optimization and Applications, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization , Operational Research, Parallel Computing, Energy Systems, Applied Soft Computing and others. His current research interest is focused on the use of combinatorial optimization methods and nature inspired algorithms to problems in logistics and supply chain management. He has written and edited more than ten books and is currently in the editorial board of four journal in the field. He has previously served at several universities in Denmark, Sweden and Greece.
Panos Pardalos is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and an affiliated faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science & Information & Engineering departments. He is a world-renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Energy Systems, Financial applications, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AAIA, AIMBE, EUROPT, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Panos Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. Panos Pardalos has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Award (2018-2019). Panos Pardalos is also a Member of several Academies of Sciences, and he holds several honorary PhD degrees and affiliations. He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization, Computational Management Science, and Springer Nature Operations Research Forum. He has published over 600 journal papers, and edited/authored over 200 books. He is one of the most cited authors and has graduated 71 PhD students so far.