Daniel Santos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico and the current Vice President of CEGIST. He earned his PhD in Optimization from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in April 2019, with a thesis titled “Models for Multi-Depot Routing Problems.” His primary research areas are routing and health care, with a focus on developing models, algorithms, and tools to support decision-making. He is the co-author of more than 15 articles in indexed, international, peer-reviewed journals and frequently collaborates with national and international researchers. He currently supervises five PhD students working on health care applications and combinatorial optimization, including topics such as home hospitalization, emergency medical services, the blood supply chain, operating room planning and scheduling, and university timetabling, and he has supervised more than 50 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 Hospitalization Management.”

Keywords: Integer Programming | Combinatorial Optimization | Stochastic Optimization