Anna Sciomachen is full Professor of Operations Research at the Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa, since 2001. She is Coordinator of the PhD Program in “Strategic Engineering” of the University of Genoa, Italy, and was formerly President of the Italian Society of Operations Research. She currently teaches Operation Research and Optimization & Simulation Methods for logistics. Her main research fields are: optimization models and heuristic methods in distributive logistics and multimodal transportation networks, liner shipping problems, stowage planning, simulation techniques for performance analysis, location-routing problems, and urban mobility.