Prof. Sara Lumbreras

Sara Lumbreras holds a PhD and a MSc Eng from Universidad Pontificia Comillas. She is a professor at the Institute for Research in Technology and teaches at the Industrial Management Department at the ICAI School of Engineering and the Financial Department at the ICADE School of Business and Law. Her research focuses on the development and application of decision support techniques for complex problems, mainly in the energy sector and in healthcare. She specializes in stochastic optimization (classical and based on metaheuristics), risk management, and machine learning. She also has five years of experience in Investment Banking, having worked as a structurer for JPMorgan London in the FX and Commodity business. She is also a Global Shaper from the World Economic Forum. She is a member of the board of the Chair of Science, Technology and Religion, where she studies the evolving nature of the links between technology and society.