Juliana Veiga Mendes

Associate Professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar-Sorocaba campus), Center for Management Sciences and Technologies, Department of Industrial Engineering. She holds a PhD and MSc from the University of São Paulo and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos. Supervisor of master students in Production Engineering (PPGEPS - https://www.ppgeps.ufscar.br/). Visiting professor at the École de Gestion at Université de Sherbrooke - Canada, (post-doctoral internship). Member of the Supply Chain 4.0 (https://supplychain4.org), member of CNPq's Research Group on Sustainability Engineering (Engs Group - https://www.grupoengs.com.br/). She is head of the Studies Group on Information Technology group applied to reverse logistics (E-Colab - https://e-colab.ufscar.br/index.html/). She was a professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where she worked on the undergraduate course in Industrial Engineering and at the FEI University Center. She served as the Department Head of Production Engineering and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Production Engineering at UFSCar-Sorocaba, Brazil. She studies and researches topics related to Operations Management with an interface in Sustainability, such as technologies in reverse logistics systems, industry 4.0, sustainability indicators, production planning, lean manufacturing, and ERP systems. Her current research interests relate to emergent technologies and practices for sustainable operations in reverse logistics and production systems (Source: Lattes Curriculum)