Dolores Rosa Santos Peñate

Dolores Rosa Santos Peñate is a Full Professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Management at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She is affiliated with the Bayesian Statistical and Decision-Making Techniques in Economics and Business research group. Her teaching responsibilities include courses such as Mathematics for Economics III and Business Mathematics.

Research Interests: Her work focuses on optimization, location theory, multicriteria decision analysis, and input-output analysis. She has applied these methodologies to competitive facility location problems, GIS-based decision support systems, and spatial economic modeling. Her research often integrates mathematical programming, metaheuristics (e.g., GRASP, PSO), and geographic information systems (GIS).

Publications: Her recent work explores topics like tourist trip design optimization (2023), generalized discrete centroid problems (2019), and bibliometric analyses of research impact (2014). These articles reflect her expertise in both theoretical and applied operations research.

Grants & Projects: She has led or participated in over 20 research projects, including:

• Técnicas de optimización y modelos en redes complejas (2015–2018, funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy)
• Red temática 'Localización y problemas afines' (multiple cycles, funded by national research agencies)
• Consulting for the Chilean Ministry of Transport (2015, funded by IADB)

Labs/Teams: She collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in the Bayesian Techniques research group and contributes to the Quantitative and Computational Finance initiatives. She has also participated in international conferences on operations research and location analysis.