• GECCO 2023 will be in Lisbon and I will be the Editor-in-Chief.
• Operations Research Perspectives has now Impact Factor (3.382)
• Special issue on exact and approximation methods for mixed-integer multi-objective optimization at Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
• New article A Reconfigurable Resource Management Framework for Fog Environments was accepted to Future Generation Computer Systems
• New article Star Discrepancy Subset Selection: Problem Formulation and Efficient Approaches for Low Dimensions was accepted to Journal of Complexity.
• New article Decision space robustness for multi-objective integer linear programming was accepted to Annals of Operations Research.
• If you are interested on doing a joint PhD on topics of optimization in Coimbra and in Kaiserslautern, check this opportunity.
• I am organizing training sessions for competitive programming - if you are a student and like to code, feel free to reach me to know more about this.

Conferences and other events

• EMO 2023
  
• EvoCOP 2023

Other news:

• Organization of RAMOO 2022
• Visiting Professor at Paris-Dauphine University in May/June 2022
• Area Editor of the new journal ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization.
• Editorial board member of Operations Research Perspectives, Elsevier
• Chair at GECCO 2020 and 2021(ECOM track), EvoCOP 2020, EvoCOP 2019, PPSN 2018
• Stream Chair on Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization at EURO 31
• Deputy Director of the Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology since November 2016
• Deputy Head of Department  from 2015 to 2017
• Deputy Director of the research center CISUC from 2013 to 2015
• See book Experimental methods for the analysis of optimization algorithms, Springer
• ACM SIGEVO impact award 2012: A racing algorithm for configuring metaheuristics
• GECCO 2015, EMO track best paper award, Greedy hypervolume subset selection in the three-objective case
• EvoCOP 2011 best paper award: Connectedness and local search for bicriteria knapsack problems
• EvoCOP 2002 best paper award: Experimental investigation of iterated local search for coloring graphs
• Programme Acertar o Rumo, of which I was the coordinator, won a 2nd national award at IAPMEI
• As novas fronteiras da engenharia 2013 award, Ordem dos Engenheiros