Background
Dr. Geir Hasle is a chief research scientist at SINTEF, a contract research organization in Norway. He received his PhD from the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo in 1996. Dr. Hasle established the Department of Optimization at SINTEF, and headed the department in the period 1997-2002. His research has focused on rich models in transportation optimization, vehicle routing in particular. Dr. Hasle is adjunct professor in optimization and operations research in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has taught courses in optimization at several universities. He was the chair of the jury of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2009, and he is member of both the industrial and scientific boards of the LANCS Initiative of foundational OR in the UK. Dr. Hasle chaired the organizing committee of the Seventh Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis - TRISTAN VII - in Tromsø, Norway 2010. He is a board member of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization - VeRoLog.

Research Interests
Operations Research; Quantitative Logistics; Transportation Management; Vehicle Routing; Reactive Scheduling; Factory Scheduling; Planning, Scheduling and Control; Linear Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Discrete Optimization; Iterative Improvement Techniques; Local Search; Heuristics; Metaheuristics; Hyperheuristics; Parallel Computing; Heterogeneous Computing; Multi-Level Search; Collaborative Search; Constraint Reasoning; Constraint Satisfaction Problems; Constraint Based Search, Constraint Based Design; Constraint Based Planning; Temporal Reasoning; Non-monotonic Reasoning.