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Amir Beck is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. He has published numerous papers, has given invited lectures at international conferences, and was awarded the Informs Farkas Prize (2022), the Salomon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Henry Taub Research Prize. His research interests are in continuous optimization, including theory, algorithmic analysis, and applications. He is a CoEditor of Mathematical Programming Series A, an associate editor of Mathematics of Operations Research and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications and was an area editor for optimization in Operations Research as well as an Associate Editor for SIAM Journal on Optimization and Mathematical Programming Series B. His research has been supported by various funding agencies, including the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israeli Foundation, the Binational US-Israel foundation, the Israeli Science and Energy Ministries and the European community.