Ola Jabali obtained her BSc. and MSc. in industrial engineering form the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology in 2003 and 2006, respectively.  She received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 2010 from the Eindhoven university of technology, the Netherlands.
In 2011 she was a post-doctoral fellow at École Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. From 2012 till 2016 she was an assistant professor at the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal. She joined the Operations Research Group of DEIB (Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione) at the Politecnico di Milano as assistant professor in September 2016.
Ola’s research interests deal with developing mathematical models coupled with efficient solution procedures to realistic problems arising in transportation, production and logistics. She mainly focuses on optimizing goods transportation, in particular problems related to pollution, uncertainty, fleet composition and customer service.