Cláudio Alves has been a Full Professor at the Department of Production and Systems Engineering of the School of Engineering, University of Minho, since 2018. He began his career in the same department in 1998. He holds a Licenciatura's degree in Systems and Informatics (1998), a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering (2000), and a PhD in Production Engineering (2005). In 2013, he successfully defended his Habilitation in Industrial and Systems Engineering, being approved by unanimity. He has been developing his scientific activity in the areas of Systems Engineering, Optimization, and Operational Research. He studied and developed modeling techniques and problem-solving using various approaches of Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. The applications he has been focusing on are in the domain of industrial processes. He has contributed with state-of-the-art results that were published in international journals of his area. He has supervised several PhD students, master's students, and research fellows. He has participated in various scientific and technological development projects, as the lead researcher or team member. Many of the projects he was involved in were conducted in direct connection with the industry, resulting in effective knowledge transfer to the involved companies. He also coordinated several postdoctoral projects, many of them supported by FCT grants. He maintains collaborations with various researchers from the University of Minho and other universities, with whom he has conducted research in his areas of interest. He has participated in the organization of several international conferences. He began his teaching activity in the second semester of the 1997/98 academic year as a “monitor” in the Department of Production and Systems at the School of Engineering, University of Minho. He entered the academic career in November 1999 as a teaching assistant in the Systems Engineering and Industrial Processes Group of that department, where he joined the Optimization and Operational Research subgroup. He has been teaching various courses in these areas to undergraduate, integrated master's, master's, and the Doctoral Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minho.