Andréa Cynthia dos Santos

***Bolsista de produtividade do M.E.S.R. (Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche), França.*** Concluiu o doutorado em Informática pela PUC-Rio em 2006. Atualmente é Professora titular 1a classe, Diretora do Instituto superior de engenharia logística (ISEL) da Universitdade Le Havre Normandie. Realiza suas pesquisas no "Laboratório de Informática, do Tratamento de Informações e de Sistemas" (LITIS), na equipe "Redes de Interações e Inteligência Coletiva" (RI2C). Atua na área de algoritmos e otimização, com ênfase no desenvolvimento de algoritmos heurísticos e exatos para problemas NP-difíceis encontrados nas areas de gestão de crises naturais, industriais e sanitárias; e cidades sustentáveis.

Ms. Andréa Cynthia Santos is an associate Professor at the technological University of Troyes in France with Habilitation to Conduct Research teams in 2016. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 2006, Brazil. In addition, Andréa C. Santos did two post-doctoral training, one at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2007 and the second one at the Blaise Pascal University in France in 2009, as a member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She led innovative projects in disaster logistics and urban transportation networks. Her research is dedicated to OR/OM problems, especially combinatorial optimization problems in transportation and network design, with applications for smart cities, humanitarian logistics and urban transportation. The project ?Tactical optimization strategies to adapt urban transportation networks (TOAST)? received an European award ?Le monde? Smart-cities on urban mobility category in 2017. The methods developed in her scientific research are part of some decision-making systems.