Dr. Baldacci is Professor of Operations Research at the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of London, Imperial College, United Kingdom.

Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Operations Research at the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (2022–2025), Associate Professor of Operations Research at the University of Bologna, Italy (2012–2022), an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy (2005–2012), an Assistant Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (2001–2005), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Quantitative Finance, Imperial College London, United Kingdom (2000–2001).

His research lies at the intersection of Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Data-Driven Optimization, with a strong focus on transportation and logistics applications. It spans the theoretical development, design, implementation, and evaluation of algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. He specializes in both exact methods and heuristic or metaheuristic approaches. In recent years, his work has expanded to include stochastic and distributionally robust optimization, large-scale linear programming with column-dependent rows, and dynamic discretization discovery techniques.

Dr. Baldacci has over 25 years of teaching experience across all levels (BSc, MSc, and PhD) and has supervised numerous undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students.

He serves on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Transportation Science. He has published over 100 papers in leading journals, including approximately 30 papers in the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, and Transportation Science.