ISRAEL D. HERRERA-GRANDA was born in Ecuador, in 1986. He received the B.Eng. degree in automotive engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial (UTE), in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree in operations and logistics management from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador, in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering and production with the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain. He has solid experience in managing operations in manufacturing companies in Ecuador. Since 2025, he has been teaching optimisation, costing and security in logistics and transport, as well as applied mathematics in the logistics and transport career at the Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi (UPEC) in Ecuador. He is a specialist in operations management, production, logistics, and transport research. He has published scientific articles, conference papers, and regional book chapters. He has participated in several projects and has conducted research in different areas of engineering.