Subject to: Luce Brotcorne

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Luce Brotcorne is a Senior research scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology). She is the leader of the INOCS research project team. INOCS works on the modeling and development of solution methods for optimization problems with complex structure. She has been working on the optimization of transportation systems for more than 25 years and in the energy domain for more than 10 years. Her interests include the study of bi-level pricing problems, equilibrium problems and stochastic optimization. More precisely she has a strong experience in modeling and solving optimization problems representing hierarchical decision processes. These problems involve two types of decision markers: a leader and a follower. The leader explicitly integrates the reaction of the follower into his decision making process. This paradigm leading to bilevel optimization problems, is well suited to model and solve incentive design problem like pricing problems. In this case the leader is the agent defining the prices taking into account into the model the reaction of the consumers. Luce Brotcorne has developed efficient solution methods to solve large instances of pricing problems in the context of revenue management or demand side management. Several papers have been published in the energy or transportation field. She is co-author of more than 25 scientific papers or book chapters and has given more than 70 presentations in national and international conferences. She is the Vice President of the EURO-Working Group in Pricing and Revenue Management. She is an associate editor for the International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR). She has supervised more than 15 PhD students and Post-docs. She has been, and still is, involved in industrial projects in the field of transportation and energy including the FUI LUMD project on urban logistics, the PGMO project - conducted with EDF (R&D) - on tariff determination in the framework of "Demand Side Management in energy" and “electric cars charging station design and pricing”. She has been the leader of 2 ANR (French Reserch Agency) projects on the design of freight transport systems with a hub structure and on the design of co-modal transport chains. The industrial partner of these two projects was DHL. She has been and is involved bilateral contracts with companies like Colisweb or Urban hub to develop new tools for city logistics.