I am an Assistant Professor of Operations and Sustainability at Insper Institute of Education and Research (Brazil) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom); a board member of The Good Food Institute, and an affiliated researcher at the Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I also serve as Early Career Editor of the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier, IF: 12.1), and as Social Media Editor for the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) and Associate Editor of the journal Gestão & Produção.

I am passionate about use-inspired research and practice focused on supply chains' environmental and social impacts in close collaboration with industry, communities, government, and third-sector stakeholders. I understand supply chains as complex social-ecological systems with unique capabilities to support sustainable development. However, supply chains are as vulnerable to severe disruptions as they are potentially harmful to the environment and society. With those assumptions, I draw from a set of research methods in operations research, system dynamics, social sciences, and complexity sciences to address the overarching research question of how to design and operate complex supply chains to tackle the grand sustainability challenges we face. I am particularly interested in the effects of technological transitions on food, energy, and humanitarian supply chains. 

I gained a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and a Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I also had an external research stay at MIT's Sloan School of Management during my Ph.D. I hold an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). I founded two award-winning technology startups in Brazil and a sustainable innovation consultancy in Denmark while pursuing my Ph.D., which allow me to implement cutting-edge research in practice.  

I am also an active member of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), contributing to their local and international conferences as author and reviewer.  I have published more than 36 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Annals of Operations Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Business Strategy and The Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, Waste Management, Sustainable Production and Consumption, and Journal of Cleaner Production, along with several articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed proceedings of leading international conferences in the fields of sustainability, operations, logistics, and supply chain management.