Giuliana Carello was born in 1972. She received her Laurea degree in 1999 from Politecnico di Torino. She earned her Ph.D. in 2004 in the same university, discussing the thesis ''Hub Location Problems in Telecommuncation Networks''. She visited Université Libre de Bruxelles for six months in 2003. She joined the Operation Research Group of DEI (Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione) of Politecnico di Milano as assistant professor in 2005. Her research work interests are exact and heuristic otimization algorithms, applied to integer and binary variable problems. Her research is mainly devoted to real life application: she focused on telecommunication network design problems. Besides the hub location problems, she worked ontwo layer wired network design problems and design and resource allocation problems in wireless networks. She published in international journals.