Information

Membership Number: FCA2201

Membership Type: Full Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: maculan@cos.ufrj.br

Homepage(s): https://twas.org/directory/maculan-nelson

Present and Previous Positions

Maculan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Systems Engineering and Computer Science of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ). 

President, the International Federation of Operational Research Societies – IFORS (Jan 2013 - ) State Secretary for Education, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil (Jan 2007-Feb 2008).

National Secretary of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (SESu-MEC), Brasília, Brazil (Feb 2004-Dec2006).

President, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil (Jul 1990-Jul 1994).

Visiting Professor at  the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Oct 2002 - Dec 2003). Visiting Professor (Directeur de recherche associé), CNRS, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris Nord (LIPN), Institut Galilée, Université Paris-Nord (Paris XIII), France (Sept 2001-Sept 2002).

Scientific Advisor at France Télécom, France (1996-1998).

Visiting Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA (Sept 1994 - Jun1995).

Visiting Professor, Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, Canada (Jan1982-Jan1984).

President, National Association of Presidents of Federal Institutions of Higher Education – ANDIFES, Brazil (1992-1994).

Director, Graduate School of Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ), Brazil (Jan1990-Jun1990).

Deputy Director for Research, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil (1984-1989).

Deputy Director for Research, the Institute of Mathematics/UFRJ (1977).

Head of Department, Applied Mathematics, the Institute of Mathematics/UFRJ, (1986-1988).

Head of Department, Systems Engineering and Computer Science, COPPE/UFRJ, (1973-1977).

President of the Brazilian Society for Operations Research – SOBRAPO (1974-1976).

Vice-President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies – IFORS (1983-1986).

President of the Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operational Research Societies – ALIO (1988-1990 and1998-2000).

Head of the Committee for Scientific Societies, Brazil (1987-1989).

Council Member (elected) of the Brazilian Society of Mathematics, the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics, the Institute of Management Science (USA), and SBPC (2009-2013).

Area Editor RAIRO-OR (2011- )

Chief Editor of InvestigaciónOperativa (1986-2002).

Associate Editor of the European Journal of Operational Research – EJOR (1986-1992), PesquisaOperacional (since 1982), Revista Portuguesa de InvestigaçãoOperacional (since 1987), Annals of Operations Research (since 1994), Journal of Global Optimization (1999-2006), Top (since 2000), Discrete Optimization (since 2004).

Computer Science Engineer, Société de Traitement Automatique des Données, Paris, France (1969-1971). Research Assistant in Statistics, École de Mines, Paris, France (1968-1969).

Invited Professor for short periods: Université Paris-Nord, Université Paris-Dauphine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,

Université de Namur, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Tokyo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UNAM-Mexico, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Sheffield,Université de Montréal, France Télécom, École Polytechnique (LIX), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Mathematical Programming, Optimization, Operations Research, Computer Science, Numerical Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Engineering

Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris, France)

Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences

Full researcher (1A) in Computer Science at CNPq (the National Council for Research, Brazil)

He was honored with several awards such as: Doctor Honoris Causa (Université Paris 13), Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite (France) and Grand-Cross for Scientific Merit (Brazil).

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mkDi8qkAAAAJ&hl=en

US Patent # 7978629, Method for network design to maximize difference of revenue and network cost. 

Other Information

cv_maculan_september_2015_0.pdf