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Paola Cappanera is an Associate Professor of Operations Research at the Department of Information Engineering (Università di Firenze), affiliated with the School of Engineering. She is a member of the IBIS Lab. Her expertise spans combinatorial optimization, healthcare logistics, telecommunication networks, and scheduling problems. She teaches courses such as Fondamenti di Ricerca Operativa, Combinatorial Optimization, and Ottimizzazione su Reti di Flusso at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Her research focuses on optimizing healthcare delivery systems, including home care services, surgical scheduling, and resource allocation. She also addresses challenges in telecommunication networks, such as latency-aware scheduling and routing. Recent work emphasizes robustness in home care planning, equitable resource distribution, and mitigating risks in hazardous material transportation.
Her articles highlight advancements in decomposition methods for scheduling, genetic algorithms for network functions, and integration of healthcare service models. Key contributions include models for emergency department physician rostering and optimizing tele-assistance systems.
