Anna Nagurney is an American mathematician, economist, educator and writer in the field of

Operations Management Operations management is concerned with designing and controlling the production (economics), production of good (economics), goods and service (economics), services, ensuring that businesses are efficiency, efficient in using resources to meet ...

. Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies in the

Isenberg School of Management The Isenberg School of Management is the business school and also the second largest school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the flagship campus for the University of Massachusetts system. The Isenberg School is accredited by the Asso ...

at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

Amherst, Massachusetts Amherst () is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. Amherst has a council–manager form of government, and is considered a city under Massachusetts state law. Amherst is one of several Massach ...

. Previously, she held the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management from 1998 to 2021.

Early life and education

Nagurney received a BS in Applied Mathematics, an AB in Russian Language and Literature, an ScM in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, all from

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

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. Nagurney's Doctoral Advisor at Brown University was Stella Dafermos. More details on her early life can be found on he
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Career

Nagurney has contributed to many different areas of operations research with a focus on network systems from congested urban transportation networks to complex supply chains with applications to food, healthcare, disaster relief, among others. She is the author/co-author of over 230 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters as well as 17 books. She has given keynote talks in many countries, including the US, UK, Colombia, Sweden, France, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, among others. She has supervised the doctoral dissertations of 23 PhDs. She has held visiting faculty appointments at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

, at the

Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology (), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden's largest technical university. Since 2018, KTH consist ...

(KTH) in Sweden, at SOWI at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (; ) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...

, Austria, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg () is a List of universities in Sweden, university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current List of universities in Sweden#Public universities, S ...

in Sweden, and was a visiting fellow at

All Souls College All Souls College (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full me ...

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

in the UK during the Trinity term in 2016. She delivered the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture, ''Networks to save the world: OR in Action,'' at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting. She delivered the IFORS Distinguished Lecture, ''Human migration networks: How Operations Research can assist with refugees and supply chain labor shortages,'' at CLAIO 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2022. She is also a member of the International Academic Board and is the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the

Kyiv School of Economics The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) is an undergraduate and graduate school of economics and management in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 1996 by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) and the Eurasia Foundation. KSE has an agreement ...

, Kyiv, Ukraine. She is one of the 44 women featured in the book, ''STEM Gems'', by Stephanie Espy. Her Google Scholar h-index is 76.

Honors and awards

* 1986 - Kempe Prize in honor of Tord Palander, Umea University, Umea, Sweden * 1988 - NSF Visiting Professorship for Women * 1989 - Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst * 1991 - NSF Faculty Award for Women * 2000 - Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts Amherst * 2002 - Fulbright/University of Innsbruck Distinguished Faculty Chair in Economics, Innsbruck, Austria * 2005 - Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, University of Massachusetts Amherst * 2005 - INFORMS Moving Spirit Award for Chapters * 2005-2006 - Science Fellow,

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, is an institute of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

, Cambridge, MA * 2007 - Fellow of the RSAI (Regional Science Association International) * 2007 - WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Award of INFORMS * 2008 - Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Business Administration - Italy * 2013 - Fellow of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) * 2014 - University Medal awarded by the

University of Catania The University of Catania () is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest in the world. With over 38,000 enrolled students, it is the largest uni ...

, Italy * 2016 - INFORMS Volunteer Service Award * 2019 - Fellow of the Network Science Society * 2019 - Constantin Caratheodory Prize, International Society of Global Optimization - ISOGO Prizes * 2020 - Harold Larnder Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society * 2024 - The Blackett Memorial Lecture, The OR Society at the Royal Society, London, UK

Quotes

"We are living in a nonlinear world"-Anna Nagurney

Publications

* 1993. ''Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach''. Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 1996. ''Projected Dynamical Systems and Variational Inequalities with Applications''. With Ding Zhang. Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 1997. ''Financial Networks: Statics and Dynamics''. With Stavros Siokos. Springer. * 1999. ''Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy Analysis''. With Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda, and Padma Ramanujam. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 1999. ''Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach'' (second edition). Kluwer Academic Publishers. * 2000. ''Sustainable Transportation Networks. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2002. ''Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age''. With June Dong. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2003. ''Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks''. (Editor). Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2006. ''Supply Chain Network Economics: Dynamics of Prices, Flows, and Profits''. Edward Elgar Publishing. * 2009. ''Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World''. With Qiang Qiang. Wiley. * 2013. ''Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products''. With Min Yu, Amir Masoumi and Ladimer Nagurney. Springer Briefs in Optimization. * 2016. ''Competing on Supply Chain Quality: A Network Economics Perspective''. With Dong Li. Springer. * 2016. ''Dynamics of Disasters—Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights''. (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas and

Panos M. Pardalos Panos M. Pardalos is a Greek scientist and engineer, currently a Distinguished Professor and the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Florida. He was elected to the 2006 class of Fellows ...

. Springer International Publishing AG. * 2018. ''Dynamics of Disasters: Algorithmic Approaches and Applications,'' (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas and

. Springer International Publishing Switzerland AG * 2021. ''Dynamics of Disasters - Impact, Risk, Resilience, and Solutions'', (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas,

, and Arsenios Tsokas. Springer * 2023. ''Labor and Supply Chain Networks'', Springer * 2024. ''Dynamics of Disasters - From Natural Phenomena to Human Activity'', (Editor). With Illias S. Kotsireas,

, Stefan Wolfgang Pickl, and Chrysafis Vogiatzis. Springer

References

External links

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