Isabel Fernández is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Oviedo, a position she has held since 2011. She has conducted 10 research stays at foreign universities in Lille (France) and Vaasa (Finland) and has served as a committee member for 8 doctoral thesis examinations and 10 university faculty hiring boards. Her research record includes participation in 24 competitive R&D&I projects funded by public agencies, 61 non-competitive R&D&I contracts and projects, and 1 Teaching Innovation project. She has co-authored 52 scientific publications and technical reports in international and national journals, along with four scholarly books. Additionally, she has contributed to 10 educational publications and presented over 100 papers at leading national and international conferences, serving on scientific and organising committees for several events and receiving awards at two of them. As part of her knowledge dissemination activities, she has taught specialised courses, published in professional journals, and delivered invited lectures. Her current research focuses on fuzzy multi-attribute group decision-making techniques, reverse logistics, supply chain management, inventory management, forecasting, and organisational engineering analysis tools.