Diana Jorge received the M.S. degree in Civil Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems (MIT|Portugal Program) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She worked for two logistics consultancy companies in the Netherlands as well as a real time delivery company in the UK. She has several papers published in international journals. The focus of her work/research is the optimization of different problems, such as routing and assignment, with applications to logistics and transportation (e.g., carsharing, aviation and waste management).