• Special Issue on Exact and Approximation Methods for Mixed-Integer Multi-Objective Optimization at Mathematics Methods of Operations Research
• Congrats to François Clement on completing his PhD at the Sorbonne University!
• Heuristic approaches to obtain low-discrepancy point sets via subset selection accepted to Journal of Complexity
• Special Issue on Reproducibility at Evolutionary Computation Journal
• I am Diretor of the PhD in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra
• I am Associate Editor of International Transactions in Operational 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.

Other news:

• Editor-in-Chief of GECCO 2023
• Organization of RAMOO 2022
• Visiting Professor at Paris-Dauphine University in May/June 2022 and January/June 2023.
• Associate Editor of International Transactions in Operational Research.
• Editorial board member of Operations Research Perspectives
• Area Editor of the new journal ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, from 2021 to 2023
• Chair at GECCO 2020 and 2021(ECOM track), EvoCOP 2020, EvoCOP 2019, PPSN 2018
• Stream Chair on Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization at EURO 31
• PhD director of the PhD in Informatics Engineering since 2024 (deputy director from 2016 to 2023)
• 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