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Maria João Lopes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods for Management and Economics at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), part of the Instituto Bernardo de Sena (IBS). She holds a PhD (2003), Master's (1993), and Bachelor's (1990) in Statistics and Operations Research from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
- Academic Roles: Assistant Professor since 1990, specializing in Operations Research and Combinatorial Optimization.
- Research Focus: Network design (telecommunications and logistics), supply chain optimization, and combinatorial optimization problems.
Her research emphasizes practical applications of optimization models in logistics, telecommunications, and healthcare systems. Key contributions include studies on multi-echelon supply chain networks, PON access networks, and vehicle routing problems with time-window constraints.
Publications span journals like Applied Mathematical Modelling and European Journal of Operational Research, focusing on network design, supply chain optimization, and integer programming approaches. Recent work addresses healthcare logistics and long-term care routing challenges.
She has presented at conferences such as OR 2018, INOC 2017, and the International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2022). No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned.
