Monique Laurent

Monique Laurent is Professor of Quantitative Microeconomics at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at CWI Amsterdam. Her research combines discrete mathematics and optimization, focusing on algebraic, combinatorial and geometric methods for algorithm design.

Research interests include:

• Semidefinite programming for combinatorial optimization
• Approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems
• Polynomial optimization techniques
• Matrix factorization ranks
• Graph theory applications

Recent publications develop semidefinite programming approaches for matrix factorization and biclique problems. She leads European research networks including TENORS on tensor optimization.

Awards:

• Khachiyan Prize (2023)
• EUROPT Fellow (2021)
• Member of Royal Netherlands Academy (KNAW)
• SIAM Fellow (2017)