Subject to: Alain Hertz

Alain Hertz graduated in mathematical engineering and obtained a Ph.D in operations research at the École Polytechnqiue Fédérale de Lausanne. Since 2001, he is professor at the department of mathematics and industrial engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. He is also member of the multi disciplinary GERAD research group that includes nearly sixty researchers and experts in operations research and discrete mathematics. He is the author of around 200 scientific publications and 4 detective novels. His main research domains are combinatorial optimization, graph theory, algorithmics, and the development of decision aid systems for scheduling and distribution problems. Alain serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and he is also a member of the executive committee of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization working group. He has organized several international conferences on graphs and optimization. He was president of the Swiss OR Society from 1996 to 2001, during which he dedicated himself to promoting the discipline worldwide.