She received her PhD degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Minho, Portugal in 2007. She is an Assistant Professor at Department of Production and Systems of the University of Minho. Her main research interests are in manufacturing management, production planning and control, optimization, artificial intelligence, meta-heuristics, scheduling, web-based systems, services and technologies, mainly for supporting engineering and production management, collaborative networks, decision-making models, methods and systems, and virtual and distributed enterprises. She has published more than 150 refereed scientific papers in international conferences and in international scientific books and journals, indexed in the Web of Science and/or in the Scopus databases. She coordinates R&D projects in the area of production and systems engineering, concerning the development of web-based platforms and decision support models, methods, and systems. She is a frequent paper reviewer for several journals, such as the Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the Journal of Decision Systems, Sustainability, among others. She also collaborates with more than 20 institutions worldwide, and is a member of several international networks, such as the Machine Intelligence Research Labs, and Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence (MirLabs).
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