Ângela Silva is an Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor at the Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho and Researcher at ALGORITMI Research Centre and ADiT-Lab (Applied Digital Transformation Laboratory) at IPVC. She holds a PhD. in Production Engineering and Systems (University of Minho), MSc in Industrial Engineering (University of Minho) and a Graduation in Production Engineering (University of Minho). She was the scientific coordinator and the director of the bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and the master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, at the Faculty of Engineering and Technologies, Lusíada University, between 2012 and 2017. Between 2018 and 2023, she was the director of the bachelor's degree in Distribution and Logistics Management and the master's degree in Logistics (APNOR), at the School of Business Sciences, at Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. She was the coordinator of the Industrial Processes research group of the Lusíada Engineering and Industrial Management Centre (CLEGI) between September 2013 and September 2018, and co-coordinator of the Organizational Processes research group of the AdiT-Lab at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo between 2021 and 2023. She develops her research work in Operations Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Modeling of Processes. She has been supervising or co-supervising more than 40MSc (concluded), during her professional career, in this research area. She mainly publishes the results of her research work in international scientific journals in the Operations Management, Supply Chain Management/Logistics and Modeling Processes areas, in edited books and conference proceedings, having more than 60 published papers.