Renata Mansini received her M.S. degree in Economics at the University of Brescia in 1992 and got her Ph.D. in Computational Methods at the University of Bergamo in 1997. In 1994 she was Exchange Ph.D. student at the Olin Business School of the Washington University (St. Louis (MO), U.S.A.) and did research in the Center for Optimization and Semantic Control under the supervision of Prof. E. Rodin. In 1997 she won a Postdoc fellowship at the Department of Quantitative Methods and in 1999 she joined the Department of Electronics for Automation of the University of Brescia as Assistant Professor in Operations Research. Since 2004 she is associate professor in Operations Research and teaches basic and advanced courses in mathematical programming and combinatorial optimization. She has been associate-director of the Master in Supply Chain Management and since 2002 she is in the Board of the Ph.D. program in “Planning and Management of Integrated Systems for Logistics and Production”. She has participated to several national and international conferences as invited speaker, session chairman, speaker. She has contributed to the organization of national and international conferences as member of the Organizing Commettee and as chair. She has participated to several Italian scientific projects (PRIN, CNR) and European ones (LIFE). Since 1996 she is member of the Italian Society of Operations Research (AIRO) and since 2012 she is in the Society Board. She is in the Editorial Board of international journals as ISRN Applied Mathematics, International Journal of Portfolio Analysis & Management.
She is authors of more than 70 scientific papers half of which published in international volumes and journals. Her primary research interests include models and solution algorithms for optimization problems in different application areas as transportation, procurement and finance. She has cooperated with foreingn researchers from European, Canadian and Australian Universities.