Monique Laurent

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Monique Laurent (born 1960)^[1] is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she is also a member of the Management Team.^[2] Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.^[3]

Monique Laurent
Laurent at Oberwolfach in 2011
Born	Monique Laurent 1960 (1960)
Alma mater	Paris Diderot University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical optimization
Institutions	Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tilburg University CNRS
Thesis	Geométries Laminées: Aspects Algébriques et Algorithmiques  (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Michel Deza

Education and career

Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.^[4] She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.^[2]

Book

With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Algorithms and Combinatorics 15, Springer, 1997).^[5]

Awards and honors

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.^[6] 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".^[7] She has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018.^[8] In 2024, she was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society.^[9]