I obtained a Joint Masters Degree in Management and Computing at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, in 2006, and a PhD in Operations Research at Imperial College London, UK, in 2010. I have been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Statistics and Mathematics at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, in 2010, the Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory at Princeton University, USA, in 2011, the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at Columbia University, USA, in 2012, and the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2017. I have also visited the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011.