Rafael Martinelli is an Operations Research professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His published research includes papers in different fields, such as Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Decision Sciences. He has experience solving industry problems, working on multiple projects from different companies. His research has been published in prestigious international journals such as Transportation Science, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Journal of Global Optimization, Discrete Optimization and Optimization and Engineering.