Anna Martinez-Gavara

Professor of Operations Research and Statistics

Bio

Anna Martínez-Gavara is a Professor of Operations Research and Statistics at the University of Valencia and an Associate Professor at the Statistics and Operations Research Department. She received her doctoral degree in Mathematics in 2008 from the University of Valencia, funded with an FPU grant.

Since 2015, she has focused her research on heuristic and metaheuristic methods for addressing challenging optimization problems. Her expertise spans from Applied Mathematics to Operations Research, with broad applications in social network analysis, management science, facility location, mobility networks, and supply chain.

Key Contributions

• Diversity and Dispersion Problems: Leading research in maximizing diversity, an important area in operations research involving subset selection
• GRASP and Iterated Greedy: Extensive experience with metaheuristic approaches including GRASP and Iterated Greedy methodologies
• Workforce Scheduling: Research on Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem, assigning personnel to visits across geographical locations
• OPTIMATH Research Group: Active member of the OPTIMATH Optimization and Mathematical modelling research group

Research Impact

• 541 citations across her research contributions
• 11 research works with significant citation impact
• Contributor to the prestigious “Handbook of Heuristics”

Publications

• Contributions to “Handbook of Heuristics” (Springer)
• Research on capacitated dispersion problem
• Publications on diversity maximization algorithms
• Various optimization algorithms applied to real-world problems

Interests

Diversity Maximization | Dispersion Problems | Metaheuristics | Location Problems | Workforce Scheduling | GRASP | Tabu Search

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