Carmen Ruiz-Puente is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Industrial Ecology at the University of Cantabria, Spain. She holds a degree and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. She has spent 20 years working in a variety of subjects from different engineering disciplines such as Chemical Engineering and Project Engineering and Management, both of which have contributed to addressing a comprehensive systemic understanding of sustainability issues. With this mindset, she led the design and the development of the novel subjects of ‘Management and Industrial Ecology’, ‘Engineering Projects and Environment’, and ‘Sustainable Industrial Systems’ within the Industrial Engineering Degree and Master’s Degree at the University of Cantabria. Her research interests include industrial symbiosis and the modeling of circular industrial systems with a focus on the socio-technical systemic thinking and complexity. She is the author of more than 100 publications in articles, book chapters, and conferences. She has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Cambridge (UK, 2013) and Cincinnati (USA, 1998) and at the Instituto Nacional de Catálisis y Petroquímica (Argentina, 1995). She has experience leading projects as a Principal Investigator, and she also collaborates as a Senior Academic in different European research networks related to Industrial Sustainability and Circular Economy.