Monique Laurent


Monique Laurent 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. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.

Education and career

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.

Book

With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics.

Awards and honors

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".
She has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018.