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Catarina Bessa is a PhD candidate at the University of Coimbra, where she enrolled in the Bachelor's and Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. Her work on Behavioral Operations Research focuses on the incorporation of fairness concerns in decision-support tools for supply chain problems. The dissemination of her work has been done in conferences and seminars, being distinguished in the XXI Congress of the Portuguese Association of Operational Research. Under the academic environment she has worked with planning solutions for pharmaceutical and personal luxury goods industries, having experienced the latter also in an industrial environment. Currently, she is an Invited Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology from University of Coimbra.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ANA CATARINA GOMES BESSA
Date of birth
1997/08/17
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • BESSA, C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
001A-7A7D-07C1
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4417-4216

Email addresses

  • ana.bessa@dem.uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/06/01 - 2025/06/01
Ongoing
 Engenharia Mecânica (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A fairer pharmaceutical supply chain: towards an optimisation framework for global network planning" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2022/04/25 - 2022/04/29
Concluded
 Heuristic Optimisation and Learning (Outros)
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2021/10
Attended
 Combinatorial Optimisation (Outros)
Major in Combinatorial Optimisation
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
2018/09/10 - 2020/07/20
Concluded
 Industrial Engineering and Management (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
"Melhoria do cumprimento das datas de entrega num sistema de produção de componentes para o mercado de bens de luxo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2015/09/15 - 2018/12/20
Concluded
 Industrial Engineering and Management (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
 12
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/27 - 2024/08/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09 - 2021/05 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/06/01 - Current FuturePharma: Pharmaceutical supply chain of the future
PTDC/EME-SIS/6019/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Bessa, Catarina; Duque, Raquel; Jesus, Alexandre; Silva, Cristóvão; Eberle, Lukas; Moniz, Samuel. "Capacity Allocation Incorporating Market Equity Concerns: A Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Case Study". In Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 37-51. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-20788-4_3
Conference poster
  1. BESSA, C.. "Capacity allocation incorporating market equity concerns: a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain case study". Paper presented in IO2021 - Analytics for a better world, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Coelho, Pedro; Bessa, Catarina; Landeck, Jorge; Silva, Cristovão. "The Potential of Low-Power, Cost-Effective Single Board Computers for Manufacturing Scheduling". Procedia Computer Science 217 (2023): 904-911. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.287.
    10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.287
  2. Coelho, Pedro; Bessa, Catarina; Landeck, Jorge; Silva, Cristovão. "Industry 5.0: The Arising of a Concept". Procedia Computer Science 217 (2023): 1137-1144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.312.
    10.1016/j.procs.2022.12.312
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Melhoria do cumprimento das datas de entrega num sistema de produção de componentes para o mercado de bens de luxo". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/92525.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/11/01 - 2021/11/08 As part of the organization comitte, logistic challenges where tackled before and during the congress called: The XXI Congress of the Portuguese Association of Operational Research (IO2021). Some of the activities involved the poster verification and setting for the event. (2021/11/07 - 2021/11/08)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/06/30 - 2024/07/03 Presenting the work entitled "Stressing the dynamics of equity and reciprocity in wholesale-retail price coordination equilibrium" and the corresponding results.
Conference
 EURO 2024 CPH
Association of European Operational Research Societies, United Kingdom
2022/11/06 - 2022/11/08 Poster submission introducing a decision-making tool for the trade-off between profit and fairness in the distribution of critical products in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.
Congress
 OR in Turbulent Times: Adaptation and Resilience
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal
2021/11/07 - 2021/11/08 Poster submission and presentation regarding the Operational research field. The poster presented a decision-making tool for the trade-off between profit and unmet demand in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.
Congress
 IO2021
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2021 TOP5/IO2021
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal
2015 3% Best Students Award
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal