Now that the academic year comes to a close, we are proud to share that the WIT ESR Alisson García Herrera is finishing remarkable progress on her thesis focused on the development of sustainable and efficient transportation systems for urban areas, using agile algorithms to provide high-quality solutions in the urban last mile distribution.

• She is currently wrapping up her second international stay, this time at INESC TEC in Porto, working under the guidance of Dr. Jorge Pinho de Sousa, a renowned expert in transportation and logistics. This experience is providing her with an excellent opportunity to gain valuable insights to make great performance and progress in her PhD research and expand her academic network.
• Earlier this month (June 10–13), she presented a research work titled 'Integrating the Team Orienteering Problem and Occasional Drivers for a Bi-objective Crowdshipping Last-Mile Optimization Model' at the SEIO 2025 conference in Lleida, engaging with the broader statistics and operations research community.
• And to cap off this exciting period, the article 'Understanding the dynamics of crowdshipping in last-mile distribution within urban mobility: A comprehensive framework' has been published in the Q1 journal Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Alisson is the main author of this article that is result of the excellent work carried out in the GILT-OR Group together with the Dr. Adrián Serrano Hernández and Alisson's supervisor Prof. Javier Faulin.

🚀 Excellent work Alisson!! A promising end to the academic year, and an even more promising path ahead!! 👏