Meritxell Pacheco Paneque

Meritxell Pacheco Paneque is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Informatics at the University of Fribourg's Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on integrating advanced discrete choice models and optimization techniques to address complex decision-making problems in transportation and logistics. She holds a Ph.D. and actively contributes to both theoretical and applied research in operations research and transportation science.

Her work emphasizes the development of mathematical frameworks that capture demand-supply interactions, particularly in contexts like waste collection routing, passenger satisfaction maximization, and railway disruption management. She employs methodologies such as Lagrangian decomposition, mixed-integer programming, and stochastic modeling to bridge behavioral sciences with optimization challenges.

Key research outputs include pioneering work on choice-based optimization models, facility location under penalties, and traffic state estimation using connected vehicle data. Her research has been published in top journals like Transportation Research Part B and Computers & Operations Research.

Pacheco Paneque collaborates with institutions and industry partners to advance practical applications of her models. Her ORCID profile (0000-0003-2192-7510) and email meritxell.pacheco@unifr.ch provide access to her full body of work.