Virginie Lurkin

Virginie Lurkin is an assistant professor in the Department of Operations at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne. Her research aims at developing innovative solutions for sustainable urban mobility and logistics, using multidisciplinary methodologies rooted in operations management, discrete choice models, and data driven decision making. Before joining HEC Lausanne, Virginie Lurkin was an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, within the group Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control (OPAC). She completed a postdoc at the Transport and Mobility Laboratory at EPFL and a PhD in Economics and Management Sciences at HEC-Liège in Belgium. During her PhD, she was also a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Her dissertation won the 2016 “INFORMS Aviation Applications Dissertation Prize”

Virginie’s research aims at developing innovative solutions for sustainable urban mobility and logistics, using multidisciplinary methodologies rooted in operations management, discrete choice models, and data driven decision making. She believes that multidisciplinary methodologies are the key to tackle mobility issues in 2023.  

Schlicher, L. and Lurkin, V. (2022). Stable allocations for choice-based collaborative price setting. European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 302, Issue 3, pp 1242-1254.

Lurkin, V., Hambuckers, J., and van Woensel, T. (2021). Urban Low Emissions Zones: A Behavioral Operations Management Perspective. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 144, pp 222-240.