Gemma Berenguer Falguera
Professor Gemma Berenguer Falguera
Gemma Berenguer is an Associate Professor and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds an M.Eng. in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLC), an M.S. in Economics (Barcelona GSE), and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics (UPC BarcelonaTech). Before joining Carlos III, she was an Assistant Professor at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.
Professor Berenguer’s major research topics are nonprofit supply chain management, sustainable and socially responsible operations, and supply chain design. She teaches at the undergraduate, Master, and Executive levels. She has experience collaborating with private, public and nonprofit organizations in the global healthcare, consumer goods, transportation, electronic goods, and solar energy sectors. She has published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, and Journal of Operations Management. She serves as Associate Editor at Operations Research Journal, Senior Editor at POM Journal, and is on the Editorial Review Board of the Decision Sciences Journal. Among different accomplishments, she has won the Skinner Best paper award at POM journal (2018) and the SOLA INFORMS Bi-annual Dissertation Award (2014).
Professor Berenguer served as the President of the Public Sector Operations Research Section at INFORMS in 2023 and is the Vice-President Europe at POMS. She is the Vice Dean of the Bachelor’s in Management and Technology at UC3M.