Greet Vanden Berghe’s primary research interest is related to operational research.  She focuses in particular on solving complex industrial combinatorial optimization problems.  Examples of such problems include timetabling, scheduling and vehicle routing problems and combinations thereof. Recently, she also became interested in dynamic combinatorial optimization, which intelligently employs data that becomes available during schedule execution. All these research activities involve mathematical modelling and the development of intelligent search algorithms such as heuristic search and decomposition methods.