Subject to: Adam Letchford

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Adam Letchford is Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He has published over 85 articles in leading journals, and over 15 book chapters. He has served on the editorial boards of seven international journals, including Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, and Operations Research. In 2006, he received an IBM Faculty Award and was made an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. In 2009, he was made a Fellow of the OR Society. From 2008 to 2013, he co-ordinated the optimisation cluster of the LANCS Initiative. In 2013, he led a research programme on optimisation at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. From 2011-2018, he was director of NATCOR, the national doctoral training centre in OR. From 2017-2022, he was a member of the REF Subpanel on Mathematical Sciences. He is also a member of the EPSRC and URKI Future Leaders Peer Review Colleges. His research interest is in optimisation, including theory, algorithms, and applications. He concentrates mainly on integer programming and combinatorial optimisation, but also has some interest in global optimisation. He tends to work on exact methods rather than heuristics. He is interested in applications of optimisation not only in OR, but also in statistics, computer science, engineering and the physical sciences. He is known especially for his work on cutting planes and their application to vehicle routing and facility location problems.