Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza obtained his Bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil, and his master's and doctoral degrees in Systems Engineering and Computing from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He became a professor at UFOP in 1982 and retired in December 2018. Since then, he remains active as professor emeritus, being part of the permanent staff of the graduate programs in Computer Science (UFOP), Instrumentation, Control, and Automation of Mining Processes (Vale Technological Institute and UFOP), and Mathematical and Computational Modeling of the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG). He has a research productivity fellowship granted by the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in transport and production engineering. His research interests are optimization, metaheuristics, scheduling, timetabling, open-pit mining, vehicle routing, and public transport.