earned and her Ph.D. in Industrial Production Systems Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Currently she is Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Production Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. From August 2007 till February 2008 she was Visiting Ph.D Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches Industrial Plants and Logistics in the Management Engineering and Automotive Engineering Programs at Politecnico di Torino. She was Visiting Professor at Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Her research interests are in the fields of logistics and SC management in both manufacturing and healthcare industries.