Kanstantsin Pashkovich received his MSc from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, and his PhD from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Università di Padova, Université libre de Bruxelles, and University of Waterloo. His research interests are related to convex, integer and combinatorial optimization, and to the interconnections among these areas.