Prof. Elisa Negri is an Associate Professor in the Manufacturing Group of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering. She is Professor of the Courses “Industrial Plants Management”, “Digital Production System Lab”, and “Data Modelling and Analysis for Complex Systems” at Politecnico di Milano and is a Core Faculty member at the POLIMI Graduate School of Management. She covers the role of Scientific Coordinator of the MICS Foundation (Made In Italy—Circular and Sustainable). She obtained her Master of Science and PhD at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research is about smart manufacturing and digital technologies for manufacturing, data modeling for manufacturing systems, advanced simulation and digital twins, to support production planning and control activities. She is active in International Scientific Communities, serving as Technical Board Member of the International Federation of Automatic Control and as Associate Editor of the International Scientific Journal “Flexible Services and Manufacturing” and of “International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing”.