Alberto Santini

Alberto Santini is an Associate Professor of Operational Research and a Ramon y Cajal fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He is also an affiliate professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics and the Data Science Centre at the Barcelona School of Economics. During 2025-2027, he coordinates the Transportation group of the Spanish O.R. Society. His research focuses on optimization methods applied to transportation, logistics, and sustainability, including scheduling, vehicle routing, and heuristic algorithms. He has contributed to solving complex problems like last-mile delivery integration with public transport, airline flight scheduling, and energy-efficient vertical farming. His work often employs advanced techniques like column generation and decomposition strategies.

Notable contributions include decomposition strategies for vehicle routing heuristics and the application of metaheuristics such as Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search (ALNS). He is the founder of EUROYoung and AIROYoung, youth branches within prominent operational research societies. His GitHub repositories, such as cvrp-decomposition, provide open-source implementations of his algorithms. Santini’s research addresses real-world challenges like epidemic resource allocation and sustainable logistics, reflecting his commitment to both theoretical and applied operational research.

• Awards: Ramon y Cajal Fellow
• Labs/Teams: Leads Transportation group (Spanish O.R. Society), Founded EUROYoung/AIROYoung.