Teresa Melo facts for kids

Maria Teresa Rocha de Magalhães Melo (born 1966) is a Portuguese mathematician and operations researcher who works as a professor in the business school of the Saarland University of Applied Sciences [de] (htw saar), a Fachhochschule in Saarbrücken, Germany. Her research interests include facility location, supply chain management, and in-hospital patient transport.

Education and career

Melo was born in 1966 in Lisbon, and studied applied mathematics at the University of Lisbon, graduating in 1989 and earning a master's degree there in statistics and operations research in 1991. Next, she went to the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam for doctoral study, completing a PhD in operations research in 1996 with a dissertation concerning the economic lot scheduling problem.

She took postdoctoral research positions at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics [de] in 1997 and 1999 respectively, and became an invited lecturer at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in 2000. She moved to htw saar as an associate professor in 2007, and became a full professor in 2011. At htw saar, she is also founding co-director of the Institute for Supply Chain and Operations Management.