Dr. Alexandre Dolgui is an IISE Fellow, Distinguished Professor (Full Professor of Exceptional Class in France), and the Head of the Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Department at the IMT Atlantique (former Ecole des Mines de Nantes and Telecom Bretagne), France. His research focuses on manufacturing line design, production planning and supply chain optimization. His main results are based on the exact mathematical programming methods and their intelligent coupling with heuristics and metaheuristics algorithms. He is the co-author of 5 books, the co-editor of 26 books or conference proceedings, the author of 319 refereed journal papers, 4 prefaces of books, 36 editorials, and 37 book chapters, as well as over 450 papers in conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Research, an Area Editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, past Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems Science (2005–2008), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2006–2009), and Omega—The International Journal of Management Science (2009–2012), consulting Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (2009– ) and Advisory Board Member for Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés (2005– ). He is a Member of the Editorial Boards for 27 other journals, including the International Journal of Production Economics, etc.
