Rafael Martí is Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Valencia, Spain. He received a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Valencia in 1994. He has done extensive research in metaheuristics for hard optimization problems. Dr Martí has about 200 publications, half of them in indexed journals (JCR), including EJOR, Informs JoC, IIE Transactions, JOGO, C&OR, and Discrete and Applied Maths. His h-index is 54 according to Google scholar. He is the co-author of several monographic books, being the last two: Exact and Heuristic Methods in Combinatorial Optimization (Springer 2022) and Metaheuristics for Business Analytics (Springer 2018), and has secured an American patent. Prof. Martí has recently co-edited the Handbook of Heuristics, a 3-volume reference in the area, published by Springer.Prof. Martí is currently Area Editor in the Journal of Heuristics, Associate Editor in the European Journal of Operational Research, TOP, Math. Prog. Computation, and the Int. Journal of Metaheuristics. He is Senior Research Associate of OptTek Systems (USA), and has given about 50 invited and plenary talks. Dr. Martí has been invited Professor in many universities, including the University of Colorado (USA), the University College of Dublin (Ireland), the University of Molde (Norway), the University of Wien (Austria), and University of Bretagne-Sud (France). He coordinates the Spanish Network on Metaheuristics, funded by the Spanish government.