Helena Ramalhinho Dias Lourenço is a Full Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She has a B.A. and Master degree in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, New York, USA. She has been involved in different research projects and consulting for firms in the area of Operations Research, Transportation, Operations Management and Logistics. Helena has published many articles in prestigious international scientific journals and has presented her work at international conferences. She also has been serving as a reviewer for several journals and a member of the program committees of several international conferences. Helena teaches at various undergraduate, master’s and PhD`s programs in the UPF, Barcelona School of Management (UPF) and several European universities. She is currently the director of the Business Analytics Research Group (UPF). Her research interests include Operations Research, Business Analytics, Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Iterated Local Search, Vehicle Routing, Scheduling, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Production and Operations Management. Her most well-known paper (co-authored with Olivier Martin and Thomas Stützle) is the Iterated Local Search article, with the foundations of this metaheuristics. Her more recent projects are on the topic: Analytics for Social Good, with applications in Social and Health Care sector, collaborating with several organizations as the Barcelona City Council.