About
I am a researcher at INESC TEC and I have obtained my PhD in Engineering and Industrial Management at FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto). My main field of research is Operations Research and Management Science. Within this scientific area, the application area I am studying is fleet management and pricing (and their integration) in mobility systems, especially in the car rental and car sharing businesses. From the techniques viewpoint, I have been using and developing Matheuristic approaches, which combine heuristics and metaheuristics with mathematical programming. I am generally interested in quantitative methods to support real-world decisions in a time- and cost-effective manner, with a special focus on hybridization techniques, especially those that consider uncertainty issues. Recently, I have also been also extending this interest to include other modelling approaches such as Constraint Programming or Dynamic Programming.