MARIA ANTÓNIA CARRAVILLA is Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), and Senior Researcher at INESC TEC. She is also a lecturer at the Porto Business School (PBS) and has been Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP). She is a member of the Scientific Council of FEUP, a member of the Scientific Council of INESC TEC and of the Academic Council of PBS. She completed in FEUP the Habilitation in Industrial Engineering and Management in 2010 with a lesson on Constraint Programming to solve Nesting Problems, the PhD in Electrical and Computers Engineering in 1996, with a thesis in Hierarchical Production Planning, the MSc in Electrical and Computers Engineering in 1991 with a thesis in Digital Controllers and the BSc in Electrical Engineering in 1984 in Power Systems. Her main scientific activity is in Operations Research (OR) and most of her research was driven by the needs of industry, services and public administration. The efficient use of resources was her main driver when addressing integrated production problems: i.e. logistics, vehicle routing problems and production planning involving mostly cutting and packing. In the transportation area, she works actively in shared mobility systems, integrating pricing and capacity planning decisions. From the techniques point of view, her research is centred on the development of Metaheuristic approaches and their hybridization with Mathematical Programming based methods. She was responsible for several R&D contracts in the area of OR with industry, services and public administration. The results of these contracts, both in the form of decision support systems or analysis reports, proved to be very relevant for these organisations, generating long-term collaborative relationships with FEUP. Pure research contracts were mostly financed by FCT in Portugal, but also by the European Union, FAPESP and CAPES in Brazil and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education. These contracts were the basis for the doctoral theses of students under her supervision and resulted in several journal articles, as well as communications at international congresses in OR. Concerning Education Institutions (EI), she participated in a working group appointed by the Ministry of Education that developed the Evaluation of Primary and Secondary Schools in Portugal, she was a member of the evaluation panel for Output Indicators in Polytechnic Higher Education, and a researcher in a project to build an Education Observatory in Portugal. She was a Pro-Director for Management and Control of FEUP where she applied intensively OR tools to the management of HEI, she developed models to support decision making in HEI, including the evaluation of the workload of the teaching staff, the International Benchmarking and Sustainability of HEI. She was responsible for courses in OR, Operations Management and Logistics at the BSc, MSc and PhD levels. She supervised a large number of master's theses both in the industrial environment and in the academy. In the scope of the teaching activity, she led several pedagogical projects whose results have been presented in invited keynotes in congresses and several higher education institutions in Portugal and Brazil. Since 2010 she organises streams dedicated to teaching and learning in international conferences in the area of OR. She received the prize for Pedagogical Excellence, with which FEUP honours her best teacher in the previous 5 years, the first time this prize was awarded by FEUP. She published 32 journal articles and 10 book sections, co-authored with 60 collaborators; she supervised 7 PhD theses e co-supervised 3, and supervised 25 MSc dissertations and co-supervised 3. She participates/participated as a principal investigator in 18 projects and as a researcher in 26 projects.