Anna Nagurney

Career

Nagurney has contributed to many different areas of operations research with a focus on network systems from congested urban transportation networks to complex supply chains with applications to food, healthcare, disaster relief, among others. She is the author/co-author of over 235 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters as well as 17 books. She has given keynote talks in many countries, including the US, UK, Colombia, Sweden, France, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, among others. She has supervised the doctoral dissertations of 23 PhDs. She has held visiting faculty appointments at MIT, at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, at SOWI at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and was a visiting fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University in the UK during the Trinity term in 2016.

She delivered the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture, Networks to save the world: OR in Action, at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting. She delivered the IFORS Distinguished Lecture, Human migration networks: How Operations Research can assist with refugees and supply chain labor shortages, at CLAIO 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2022. In December 2024, she delivered the Blackett Lecture, NetwORks and Policies: OR to the Rescue, at the Royal Society in London, UK sponsored by the Operational Research Society. At the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting, she received the President's Award, whose purpose is to recognize, and thereby encourage, important contributions to the welfare of society by members of our profession at the local, national, or global level.

She is a member of the International Academic Board and of the Board of Directors of the Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine. From February 2022 to August 2025, she served as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors.

She is one of the 44 women featured in the book, STEM Gems, by Stephanie Espy.

Her Google Scholar h-index is 77 and her work has been cited over 25,000 times.

Honors and awards

• 1986 - Kempe Prize in honor of Tord Palander, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
• 1988 - NSF Visiting Professorship for Women
• 1989 - Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 1991 - NSF Faculty Award for Women
• 2000 - Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2002 - Fulbright/University of Innsbruck Distinguished Faculty Chair in Economics, Innsbruck, Austria
• 2005 - Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2005 - INFORMS Moving Spirit Award for Chapters
• 2005-2006 - Science Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• 2007 - Fellow of the RSAI (Regional Science Association International)
• 2007 - WORMS (Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Award of INFORMS
• 2008 - Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Business Administration - Italy
• 2013 - Fellow of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
• 2014 - University Medal awarded by the University of Catania, Italy
• 2016 - INFORMS Volunteer Service Award
• 2018 - Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture, at the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
• 2019 - Fellow of the Network Science Society
• 2019 - Constantin Caratheodory Prize, International Society of Global Optimization - ISOGO Prizes
• 2020 - Harold Larnder Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society
• 2022 - IFORS Distinguished Lecture, at CLAIO 2022, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2024 - The Blackett Memorial Lecture, The OR Society at the Royal Society, London, UK
• 2025 - INFORMS President's Award
• 2025 - Fellow of the Operational Research Society (UK)

Quotes

"We are living in a nonlinear world"-Anna Nagurney