Brief Bio

Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano was born in Villena, Spain, in 1968. He lived his childhood and teenage years in Yecla, Spain, where he completed his elementary and high school studies. He received his BSc. in Mathematics with Honors (1991), Post-Graduate Studies in Statistics, Operations Research and Applied Mathematics (1995) and PhD. in Mathematics (1998) from the University of Murcia, Spain, and a Post-Graduate Studies in Quantitative Economics (1993) from the University of Alicante, Spain. He taught at the University of Alicante from 1991 to 1997 and then joined the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science at the Miguel Hernandez University of Elche (UMH), Spain, of which he was named by the Regional Government of the Comunitat Valenciana as a member of the Foundational Committee that launched the UMH. At present he is (Full) Professor of the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science and senior researcher of the Research Institute “Center of Operations Research (CIO)” of which he was among the founders and its director from 2004 to 2007, both at the UMH. Likewise, he is the coordinator of the Doctorate Program in Statistics, Optimization and Applied Mathematics at the UMH from 2013-2019.

Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano has more than 100 scientific papers published in journals, books and proceedings and two copyrighted software, one for decision making in electricity competitive markets and another for water irrigation scheduling management respectively. He has been the PhD. advisor of six PhD theses and at present he is the PhD. advisor of seven PhD. students. He received the Ramiro Melendreras Prize for young researchers in Statistics and Operations Research in 1998, the IIE Transactions Award in 2009 granted by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. In Escudero and López (2012) Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano was listed as one of the major Spanish contributors to the field of the Operations Research according to the databases MathSciNet and Web of Science (ISI-WOK).

His research interests are focused on game theory and its applications, scarce resource management, bankruptcy problems, attribution problems, cost/profit sharing in joint logistic projects, optimization of complex systems, and statistical applications to health and economic sciences.