The UPF Department of Economics and Business has officially launched a new seminar series titled the Operations & Marketing Seminar Series.

Coordinated by Prof. Alberto Santini, the new series explores the links between ideas of business operations and marketing, as well as other business strategies and functional areas of the firm, such as logistics.

The first lecture of the series was delivered last week by Prof. Michael Schneider from RWTH Aachen University.

Prof. Schneider's research concentrates on the development of effective and efficient network planning systems based on metaheuristic and exact optimization methods, especially in the fields of transportation, location planning, and warehouse management. His special interests include the routing of electric vehicles, the design of service territories, and the development of metaheuristic methods for location-routing problems.

Upcoming speakers in the series will include Prof. Daniele Vigo of the University of Bologna (October 31), Prof. Tolga Bektas of the University of Liverpool (November 7), and Prof. Skander Esseghaier of ESADE (November 21).

Find out more details and keep up to date on this new series via its Seminar Series page.