Carla Sofia Alves has an M.Sc. in Biological Engineering (completed in 2014), an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (completed in 2018) both from the University of Minho (Portugal) and a Senior Technician in Occupational Safety and Health Course (concluded in 2016) from the XZ Consultores (Portugal). In 2020- 2021, Carla completed an advanced robotics course (with a highlight on machine learning techniques and computer vision, ABB robot programming), high-level programming - Python (intermediate level), JAVA programming (beginner level), at Cinel (Portugal). Carla is recently accepted to enroll in the Doctorate in Electronic and Computer Engineering (PDEEC), specializing in Control, Automation, and Robotics, at the University of Minho. As part of the M.Sc. in Biological Engineering and under the scope of Erasmus Sectoral Sub-program, Mobility of Students, Studies 2012/2013, from February to July of 2013, Carla was a researcher trainee at ProdAl Scarl in Università Degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), where she developed work related to the extraction of bioactive compounds from vegetable matrices assisted by the PEF (Pulse Electric Field) technology. As part of the M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, from September 2017 to July 2018, and under the scope of the curricular stage, Carla developed work related to the Implementation of mobile industrial robots (MiR) to supply automatic insertion production lines (SMT Lines) at APTIV (Braga, Portugal). From 09/2018 to 09/ 2019, Carla worked on the integration (programming, operation, maintenance/assistance) of mobile industrial robots (model MiR 100) and study of other models of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) (benchmark studies, model simulations for the supply system through AMRs), for application in the existing supply systems at APTIV. She has received one award for Best Master's Dissertation, entitled "Simulation and optimization of production lines with AIVs in one OEM factory" at the Conference "A Engenharia Industrial na era das Cidades Inteligentes e da Ciência de Dados" where she presented the respective conference paper, on February 13th, 2019 by Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho. Carla is recently accepted to enroll the PDEEC at the University of Minho, ALGORITMI Research Center, in the "Industrial Electronics (IE)" research line. She is also involved in research activities in Collaborative Robots, Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration, and Applied Ergonomics at Digital Transformation Colab DTx (Guimarães, Portugal). As a result of this work, she recently authored one article, under revision, in the high-quality peer-reviewed journal Robotics, under the scope of a special issue in Advances in Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems, with the title "Human-robot interaction in industrial settings: perception of multiple participants at a crossroad intersection scenario with different courtesy cues". Her areas of scientific interest are Collaborative Robotics (Robotic Arms, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Mobile Manipulators), Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Digital Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0, Applied Ergonomics.