Dr. Mario Vanhoucke is a Professor at Ghent University (Belgium), Vlerick Business School (Belgium), and UCL School of Management at University College London (UK). He teaches courses on Project Management, Applied Operations Research and Decision-making for Business. His research interests lie in the integration of project scheduling, risk management, and project control, which has led to more than 100 papers in international journals, five project management books published by Springer, one book published by Apress, and a PM Knowledge Center for online learning. His research has received multiple awards, e.g. from the Project Management Institute (PMI Belgium), the College of Performance Management (CPM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA).