معرفی
Sebastian Urrutia is a Professor in the Faculty of Logistics at Molde University College (HiMolde), specializing in Operations Research and Optimization. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2005) and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires (2001). His research focuses on Integer Programming, Approximation Algorithms, Graph Theory, and applications in Healthcare Logistics, Transportation, and Sports Scheduling.
Key research interests include optimization methods for healthcare systems, maritime inventory routing, and algorithmic solutions for complex scheduling problems. His work bridges theoretical advancements in combinatorial optimization with practical applications in logistics and transportation.
Recent publications emphasize Benders decomposition for healthcare logistics, polynomial-time graph algorithms, and maritime routing optimization. He has contributed to over 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals like European Journal of Operational Research and Networks.
Urrutia’s academic contributions include developing exact and heuristic methods for NP-hard problems, with notable work on the Double Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Stacks and token swapping algorithms on cographs.
