Gautier Stauffer’s research aims to answer challenging questions about production and supply chain management using data-driven operations research approaches. He likes on one hand to approach real-world problems with advanced integer programming and combinatorial optimization techniques and to help transfer theoretical concepts to applications and, on the other hand, to bring new models to theory from applications and to develop the underlying foundations. He is currently working with La Poste (France) on the design of cooperative and sustainable urban distribution networks, with MSF logistics (Médecins sans frontières) on the optimization of humanitarian operations; and on the advancement of the theory behind the corresponding problems. Gautier Stauffer received his PhD in mathematics from EPFL in 2005. Before joining HEC Lausanne as an associate professor, he was successively postdoc at MIT, researcher at IBM Research, Inria Chair of Excellence at the University of Bordeaux, associate professor at Ensimag (Grenoble) and senior professor at Kedge Business School (Bordeaux).
