Dr. Alexandre Dolgui is a Fellow of IISE, Distinguished Professor (Full Professor of Exceptional Class in France), and the Head of Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Department at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France. His research focuses on manufacturing line design, production planning and supply chain optimization. His main results are based on the exact mathematical programming methods and their intelligent coupling with heuristics and metaheuristics algorithms. He is the co-author of 5 books, the co-editor of 20 books or conference proceedings, the author of 263 refereed journal papers, 30 editorials and 32 book chapters as well as over 400 papers in conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Research, an Area Editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, and an Associate Editor of Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés, past Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems Science (2005-2008), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2006-2009) and Omega-the International Journal of Management Science (2009-2012), consulting Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science (2009- ). He is Member of the Editorial Boards for 27 other journals, including the International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management, International Journal of Simulation & Process Modelling, International Journal of Engineering Management & Economics, Journal of Decision Systems, Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Algorithms, Journal of Operations and Logistics, Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management & Production Engineering Review, Decision Making in Manufacturing and Service, Risk and Decision Analysis, etc. Fellow of the European Academy for Industrial Management, Member of the Board of the International Foundation for Production Research, former Chair of IFAC TC 5.2 Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control, Member of IFIP WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems, IEEE System Council Analytics and Risk Technical Committee, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Social and Economic Security, Guest editor of special issues of European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega – The International Journal of Management Science, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms, and Annual Reviews in Control; he was General Scientific Chair of the 12th IFAC symposium INCOM'06, Chairman of International Program Committee of SCM’02, MOSIM’04, INCOM'09, INCOM'12, IESM'13, MIM'13, INCOM'15, and MIM'19, Chairman of Organizing Committee of the International Conference MOSIM’01 and ROADEF'2011; last ten years, he was Member of Program Committees of over 200 International Conferences, etc. He has been responsible of the French national CNRS working group on Design of Production Systems (with about 336 individual members) and the regional project on Design and Management of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.He has been team leader in 5 European Projects and Coordinator of 1 European Project. Many direct funding projects with industry as well as via the French National Agency for Scientific Research (ANR) and regional research agencies in France.