Öncü Hazir is professor at Rennes School of Business in France. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering and MBA from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Business Administration at Bilkent University in 2008. His dissertation was on project scheduling. He worked as a post-doctorate researcher in Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne and as an associate professor at TED University. His research interests mainly cover project scheduling and control, earned value management, production planning, and operations management. He participated in various research projects and gave seminars and lectures. He published several articles in operations research and management journals. He co-authored the textbook, “An Introduction to Project Modeling and Planning," published by Springer.
Maria Elena Bruni is professor in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and collaborating member of the CIRRELT, Montreal. She received a Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and a M.S. in Public Economy from the University of Sapienza (Rome). Her research activity focuses on designing solution methods for combinatorial problems under uncertainty and risk, with applications mainly in scheduling, routing and healthcare. She is author of more than 90 papers accepted in refereed international journals and author of three Springer book chapters. She received the best paper prize of the IMA Journal of Management mathematics journal in 2016 and best poster awards for the ICORES conferences in 2018, 2019 and 2022. She is associate editor of international journals, workshop organizer and member of program and scientific committees for several international conferences.