Subject to: Alfredo Iusem

Alfredo Noel Iusem graduated as Licenciado en Matemática at Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1971, as M.Sc. in Operations Research at Stanford University in 1979, and as PhD in Operations Research at Stanford University in 1981. He was a researcher at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro from 10/01/1981 to 09/05/2023. Currently, he is Full Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics (EMAp) of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. During his 42 years at IMPA, he was Scientific Information Coordinator, Scientific Activities Coordinator coordinator of the MS Program on Mathematical Methods in Finance, member of the Scientific and Technical Council, member of the Administration Board, and director of the Optimization Seminar since its inception in 1992. Outside IMPA, he was member and later on coordinator of the Mathematics and Statistics Committee of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CAMA/CNPq) and chair of the Steering Committee of the Working Group on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity. He supervised 16 PhD students at IMPA and has published three books and 164 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has been associate editor of Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization and Journal of Nonlinear and Variational Analysis. He is Member of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), member of the Developing World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).