Teodor Gabriel Crainic is Adjunct Professor of Operations Research, Transportation, and Logistics, School of Management, Université du Québec à Montréal, and Adjunct Professor of Operations Research, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal. He is also a senior scientist at CIRRELT, the Interuniversity Research Center for Enterprise Networks, Logistics, and Transportation. He received the 2006 Merit Award of the Canadian Operational Research Society and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

The research interests of Professor Crainic are in network, integer, and combinatorial optimization, meta-heuristics, and parallel computing applied to the planning and management of complex systems. Particularly in transportation and logistics. Major contributions targeted methods for national/regional planning, the design, scheduling, and operation management of consolidation-based carriers, intermodal and logistics networks, routing, scheduling, and city logistics, new business and organizational transportation and logistics models and systems, and planning of urban and inter-urban multimodal multi-stakeholder freight transportation systems.