Nicolas Zufferey received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), and the Ph.D. degree in operations research, in 2002. He was successively a Postdoctoral trainee with the University of Calgary, from 2003 to 2004, and an Assistant Professor with Université Laval, from 2004 to 2007. Since 2008, he has been with the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where he is currently a Full Professor of operations management. He is a member of the CIRRELT Transportation and Logistics Research Center and the GERAD Decision-Analysis Research Center. He is the coauthor of more than 140 publications (papers in academic journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters), and has reviewed articles for 54 international journals. With 76 coauthors, he has research activities with 32 Universities (mainly in Europe and America), and with 26 private companies. His research interests include designing solution methods for difficult and large optimization problems, with applications mainly in transportation, scheduling, production, inventory management, network design, supply chain management, and telecommunications.