Jesper Larsen received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1995 from the University of Copenhagen, and his Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1999 from The Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He is currently Professor in Operations Research (OR) at the Department of Management Engineering.

Professor Larsen is currently chair of the Nordic section of the Mathematical Programming Society, editor of the newsletter of the Danish OR Society, and member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of OR Societies (EURO).

He is responsible for the course in integer programming as also lectures in as industrial applications of advanced methods in OR as well as supervision of a wide range of MSc and PhD projects.  He is currently also the MSc Director for the Masters Programme in Management Engineering at DTU.

Professor Larsen's research interest span optimization problems in Railways and Airlines, production planning and resource planning in healthcare. He is the author of several papers in the area and in used as reviewer for many top-ranking OR journals. He has participated in numerous optimization projects with industry partners withing airline (Copenhagen Airports, British Airways, SAS), Rail (Danish State Railways (DSB) and Deutsche Bahn), Land transportation (Transvision and Logis) and healthcare (Avaleo and Novo Nordisk).