Jorge Muniz Jr. is an Associate Professor at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), a Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK, 2022-2023), and an Associate Editor of Production Journal (2018-). He has a Ph.D. in Engineering from UNESP (Production Engineering), with a thesis awarded by the Brazilian Association of Production Engineering (ABEPRO) related to worker knowledge management, and a master's degree from USP (Production Engineering), with a dissertation distinction related to concurrent engineering at Embraer. He used to be an executive at the Ford Motor Company. He currently works at the international research group, with a focus on social systems and future manufacturing with Industry 4.0/5.0 and knowledge management in production systems.