Carina Pimentel is an Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor at the Department of Production and Systems at the University of Minho. She is a researcher at the Algoritmi Research Unit (https://algoritmi.uminho.pt/).She has been involved in several funded research projects, such as the following ones: BioAgroFloRes - Sustainable Supply Chain Management Model for Residual Agro-forestry Biomass Supported in a Web Platform (PCIF/GVB/0083/2019), Augmented Humanity (Projeto Mobilizador n.º 46103), SOLFI - Optimization System for Urban Logistics with Integrated Flows of Goods and Passengers (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039870), and DRIVIT_UP - DRIVIng forces of urban Transformation: assessing pUblic Policies (02/SAICT/2017).Her main research interests are related to Operations Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Operational Research areas, including lean production, production planning and scheduling, production scheduling in human–robot collaboration, urban logistics, maritime logistics, supply chain sustainability, and supply chain performance measurement. Recently, she has also been researching the links between Industry 4.0 and the above-mentioned areas.She mainly publishes the results of her research work in international scientific journals in the operations management, supply chain management/logistics and operations research areas, in edited books and in conference proceedings, having more than 80 published papers.