Roberto Roberti is an Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Department of Operations Analytics. In 2012, he obtained a PhD in Control System Engineering and Operational Research from the University of Bologna. His PhD dissertation received the Premio Lorenzo Brunetta and the VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize. His research focuses on the development of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems arising in the fields of Transportation and Logistics. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, Computers & Operations Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Transportation Science.