François Glineur earned dual engineering degrees from CentraleSupélec and Université de Mons in 1997, and a PhD in Applied Sciences from the latter institution in 2001. After visiting Delft University of Technology and working as a post-doctoral researcher at McMaster University, he joined Université catholique de Louvain, where he is currently a full professor of applied mathematics in the Engineering School. He is also a member of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics and the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics. He served as the Engineering School's vice-dean between 2016 and 2020. His primary areas of interest in research are optimization models and methods, with a particular emphasis on convex optimization and algorithmic efficiency. He received the 2017 Optimization Letters best paper award for the worst-case analysis of gradient descent with line search. He is also interested in the use of optimization in engineering, as well as nonnegative matrix factorization and its application to data analysis.