Daniel Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering and Management Department of Instituto Superior Técnico and the current Vice President of CEGIST. He concluded his PhD in Optimisation from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa in April 2019, with a thesis titled "Models for multi-depot routing problems". Daniel's primary research areas are routing and health care, with a focus on developing models, algorithms and tools to support decision-making. He is a co-author of over 13 articles in indexed international peer-reviewed journals, and frequently collaborates with national and international researchers. Daniel currently supervises(d) 5 PhD students in health care applications and combinatorial optimisation, on topics such as home hospitalisation, emergency medical services, blood supply chain, operating room planning and scheduling, and university timetabling, and has supervised over 40 MSc students. He is the Principal Investigator of the FCT-funded projects "LAIfeBlood+ - Data Science for Blood Management" and "SUPPORT-HH: Decision support tools for Home Hospitalisation management".

Keywords: Integer Programming | Combinatorial Optimization | Stochastic Optimization