Francisco Saldanha da Gama is chair of supply chain management at Sheffield University Management School (UK), where he is also the head of the Operations Management and Decision Sciences division and head of SOLARC—Supply Chain, Operations and Logistics Applied Research Centre. His research interests include Operations Research, Operations Management, Business Analytics, and Decision-Making under Uncertainty,  with applications to Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Facility Location, and Project Scheduling. Over the past three decades, he has accumulated a vast teaching experience spanning multiple topics in Operations Management, Operations Research, Applied Probability, and Statistics. He has been awarded a dozen prizes and honors, the most recent being the "Omega, The International Journal of Management Science, Best Paper Award, 2024". He is a member of several international scientific organizations, such as the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis, of which he is one of the past coordinators. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Operations Research, Consulting Editor of Social Sciences & Humanities Open, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Omega—The International Journal of Management Science, the Journal of the Operational Research Society (UK), Operations Research Perspectives, International Journal of General Systems and Algorithms.