Ola Jabali is an associate professor at the operations research and discrete optimization group of DEIB. Her research interests deal with modelling and solving realistic problems arising in transportation, production and logistics. She is an affiliated professor at HEC Montréal, Canada, and a collaborating member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). She obtained her MSc. in industrial engineering from the Technion in 2006, and her Ph.D. in the same field in 2010 from the Eindhoven University of Technology. From 2012 till 2016 she was an assistant professor at the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal.
In 2016 she obtained the “Rita Levi Montalcini” fellowship for young researchers by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. In 2023 she received the Stella Dafermos Mid-Career Award, by the Transportation Science and Logistics society of INFORMS. She is associate editor for INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, Part C: Emerging Technologies, and Transportation Research and Transportation Science.