Mariano Frutos received an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering as well as a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Engineering from his home university. He is an Associate Researcher of CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina) and a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. His research is centered on scheduling problems in production and its treatment through metaheuristic methods. He has published in Omega, Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Dyna, and the American Journal of Operations Research among others. He participates actively in the Operations Research community in Latin America.