Anabela C. Alves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho. She holds a Ph.D. in Production and Systems Engineering and is affiliated with the Center ALGORITMI/LASI. Her main research interests are in the areas of production systems' design and operation; lean thinking applied to production, healthcare, services, product development, systematic innovation (TRIZ), sustainability, ergonomics, project management; and engineering education, with particular interest in active learning methodologies, project-led education (PLE), project/problem-based learning (PBL) and lean education. She is the author/coauthor of more than 200 publications in conference publications/communications, including 3 books, 4 co-edited books, 18 editions of conference proceedings and journal Special Issues, 46 book chapters, and more than 140 international journal articles (Scopus h-index: 22; WoS h-index: 13). She is currently supervising 3 PhDs and has previously supervised 5 PhDs, 1 postdoc, more than 100 Master's dissertations (she has co-supervised 15), and 22 BSc. degree projects in the areas of Industrial Engineering and Management. She was President of over 60 Master's Jury exams and she was the examiner for almost 100 Master's dissertations and 4 national and international PhDs. She is a "Top Peer Reviewer", having reviewed more than 170 papers for international journals and more than 200 for conferences.