Alysson M. Costa is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Melbourne (2014 - ). Prior to that, he held a research fellow position at the Informatics Institute of the Brazilian Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2007) and was an assistant professor at the Applied Mathematics Department of the University of São Paulo (2008-2013).  He was trained in Engineering, obtaining a BEng and an MSc from the State University of Campinas (2000,2002) and an Engineering Specialisation Diploma from the Ecole Centrale Lyon (2000). He concluded his PhD studies in Business Administration from HEC - University of Montreal (2007) with a thesis on network design problems which received the 2008 Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society Cecil Graham Award. With his group of students and collaborators, he develops research on mixed-integer programming with a focus on modelling.