Concepcion Paralera Morales

Concepcion Paralera Morales is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, affiliated with the Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History. Her research focuses on Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics within the "Quantitative Methods in Business and Economics" research group.

• PhD in Economics from Universidad Pablo de Olavide (2005)
• Supervised by Dr. Rafael Caballero Fernández and Dr. Flor María Guerrero Casas

Her work primarily addresses multiobjective optimization problems in operational research, particularly location routing and waste management. She has applied metaheuristics like tabu search to real-world case studies in Andalusia, incorporating both economic and social criteria in decision-making processes.

Key trends in her publications (2005-2007) include: multicriteria approaches for infrastructure location, integration of equity considerations in risk assessment, and combinatorial optimization techniques. Her research intersects operations research (90-XX) with applications in environmental policy and industrial logistics.