Monique Laurent

Monique Laurent
At the MFO associate's meeting 2016, 10. from right
Born	Monique Laurent
Residence	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fields	Mathematical optimization
Institutions	Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tilburg University CNRS
Alma mater	Paris Diderot University
Thesis	Geométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Michel Deza

Monique Laurent is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a professor at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she leads the Networks and Optimization group. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.

Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza. She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.

With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of cuts and metrics (Springer, 1997).

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete and polynomial optimization and revealing interactions between them".