Professor Scavarda joined PUC-Rio in 2002. Since 2012 he has been the Director of the Industrial Engineering Department. He earned his Undergraduate, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in Industrial Engineering at PUC-Rio. In 2000/2002 he joined, as a visiting researcher, the German Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (part of his Doctoral thesis), and in 2009 he became a post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna University of Technology. From 12.2015 until 02.2017 he held a research fellowship as an “Experienced Researcher” at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation & CAPES at the University of Münster. He has been a visiting Professor and Researcher in different institutes in Germany. He has coordinated research and industrial projects sponsored by the industry sector and government agencies of different countries. Currently, he is a researcher with a grant by the Brazilian National Research and Development Centre (CNPq), a Visiting International Professor (VIP) at the University of Münster (School of Business and Economics), and a Humboldt fellow. His research interests include sustainable supply chain logistics management and its related areas. He has published more than 170 articles in several conference proceedings, books, and international journals. His h-index is 21 in the Scopus database.