Daniele Vigo is Professor of Operations Research at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of Bologna. He is interested in the design of innovative algorithms for the solution of difficult decision and optimization problems arising in several applications fields ranging from Logistics to Energy Production and to Smart Cities. He is author of about 150 scientific papers and coeditor of some highly cited books. He was president of the Italian OR society from 2016 to 19 and is coordinator of the EURO working group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization.He was president of the Italian OR society and coordinator of the EURO working group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization.