Magdalene MarinakiView profile
Researcher
Magdalene Marinaki serves as a Researcher and permanent laboratory teaching personnel at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), School of Production Engineering and Management. She also teaches in the Hellenic Open University's Social Sciences Graduate Program. Her expertise lies in optimization methodologies, optimal control systems, and nature-inspired algorithms applied to logistics and manufacturing. She holds a Diploma, MSc, and PhD from TUC, specializing in Production Engineering and Management. Her research focuses on computational optimization, metaheuristics, vehicle routing problems (VRP), energy-efficient transportation systems, and structural control. She has authored 4 books and over 50 journal articles, with additional contributions to conference proceedings. Notable projects involve EU-funded research on blockchain applications in maritime logistics, electric vehicle routing, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path optimization. Her recent work emphasizes sustainable transportation solutions, including EV charging infrastructure planning and drone-integrated delivery networks. She has developed algorithms like teaching-learning-based optimization and hybrid swarm intelligence techniques, addressing real-world challenges in supply chain management and smart manufacturing systems.











