Daniel Santos is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering and Management Department of Instituto Superior Técnico and current Vice President of CEGIST. He concluded his PhD in Optimization 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 focus on developing models, algorithms and tools to support decision-making. He is co-author of over 13 articles in indexed international peer-review journals, and frequently collaborates with national and international researchers. Daniel currently supervises(d) 5 PhD students in health care applications and combinatorial optimization, on topics such as home hospitalization, 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 Hospitalization management".