Dr. Magdalene Marinaki was born in Chania, Greece. She received a Diploma in Production Engineering and Management from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, a MSc in Operations Research and a PhD from the same University. Currently she serves as a permanent staff (laboratory teaching personnel, research associate) in the Technical University of Crete, School of Production Engineering and Management, Chania, Greece. She is, also, teaching in the Hellenic Open University in the School of Social Sciences in the Graduate Studies Program. Her research interests focus on Computational Methods in Optimization Problems, on Nature Inspired Methods, on Metaheuristics Algorithms, on Supply Chain Management, on Vehicle Routing Problem, on Optimal and Automatic Control, on Structural Control and on Data Mining. She is the author of 4 books and of 51 papers in international scientific journals. She has more than 75 papers in book chapters and in the proceedings of international and national scientific conferences. She has worked as a researcher in many European Research projects. The total number of citations in Dr. Marinaki’s work is equal to 3596 (based on Scholar Google-11/01/2022).