Anna Nagurney is a Ukrainian-American

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in the field of Operations Management. Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies in the

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. Previously, she held the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management from 1998 to 2021.

Biography

She received a BS in Applied Mathematics, an AB in Russian Language and Literature, an ScM in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, all from

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. Nagurney's Doctoral Advisor at Brown University was Stella Dafermos. Nagurney has contributed to many different areas of operations research with a focus on network systems from congested urban transportation networks to complex supply chains with applications to food, healthcare, disaster relief, among others. She is the author/co-author of over 220 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters as well as 15 books. She has given keynote talks in many countries, including the US, UK, Colombia, Sweden, France, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, among others. She has supervised the doctoral dissertations of 23 PhDs. She has held visiting faculty appointments at MIT, at the

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(KTH) in Sweden, at SOWI at the

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, Austria, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and was a visiting fellow at

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in the UK during the Trinity term in 2016. She delivered the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture, ''Networks to save the world: OR in Action,'' at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting. She delivered the IFORS Distinguished Lecture, ''Human migration networks: How Operations Research can assist with refugees and supply chain labor shortages,'' at CLAIO 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2022. She is also a member of the International Academic Board and the co-chair of the Board of Directors of the

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, Kyiv Ukraine She is one of the 44 women featured in the book, ''STEM Gems'', by Stephanie Espy. Her Google Scholar h-index is 71.

Honors and awards

* 1986 - Kempe Prize in honor of Tord Palander, Umea University, Umea, Sweden * 1988 - NSF Visiting Professorship for Women * 1989 - Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst * 1991 - NSF Faculty Award for Women * 2000 - Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts Amherst * 2002 - Fulbright/University of Innsbruck Distinguished Faculty Chair in Economics, Innsbruck, Austria * 2005 - Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, University of Massachusetts Amherst * 2005 - INFORMS Moving Spirit Award for Chapters * 2005-2006 - Science Fellow,

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, Cambridge, MA * 2007 - Fellow of the RSAI (Regional Science Association International) * 2007 - WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Award of INFORMS * 2008 - Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Business Administration - Italy * 2013 - Fellow of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) * 2014 - University Medal awarded by the University of Catania, Italy * 2016 - INFORMS Volunteer Service Award * 2019 - Fellow of the Network Science Society * 2019 - Constantin Caratheodory Prize, International Society of Global Optimization - ISOGO Prizes * 2020 - Harold Larnder Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society

Publications

* 1993. ''Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach''. Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 1996. ''Projected Dynamical Systems and Variational Inequalities with Applications''. With Ding Zhang. Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 1997. ''Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics''. With Stavros Siokos. Springer. * 1999. ''Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy Analysis''. With Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda, and Padma Ramanujam. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 1999. ''Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach'' (second edition). Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 2000. ''Sustainable Transportation Networks. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2002. ''Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age''. With June Dong. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2003. ''Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks''. (Editor). Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2006. ''Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows, and Profits''. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2009. ''Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World''. With Qiang Qiang. Wiley. * 2013. ''Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products''. With Min Yu, Amir Masoumi and Ladimer Nagurney. Springer Briefs in Optimization. * 2016. ''Competing on Supply Chain Quality: A Network Economics Perspective''. With Dong Li. Springer. * 2016. ''Dynamics of Disasters—Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights''. (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas and

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. Springer International Publishing AG. * 2018. ''Dynamics of Disasters: Algorithmic Approaches and Applications,'' (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas and

. Springer International Publishing Switzerland AG * 2021. ''Dynamics of Disasters - Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions'', (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas,

, and Arsenios Tsokas. Springer * 2023. ''Labor and Supply Chain Networks'', Springer

References

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