He is currently a Full Professor in the Production Department at the School of Engineering - Guaratinguetá Campus of UNESP. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow - Level C, and Coordinator of the GOL Research Group - Optimization and Logistics Group at FEG – UNESP. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1976), a master's in Operational Research from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (1981), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (1987). He did a postdoctoral fellowship at Brunel University in London, England (1994). ORCID number C-7902-2013, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6510-9187.