Vânia Veloso is a researcher at the Centre for Management Studies in Instituto Superior Técnico (CEGIST). She is an Industrial and Management Engineer who graduated in October 2020 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. Vânia developed her master's thesis, which focused on the study of circular economy strategies and sustainability performance assessment of agri-food supply chains, in the scope of the research project "MobFood: Mobilisation of Scientific and Technological Knowledge in Response to the Challenges of the Agri-Food Sector. In September 2021, Vânia enrolled in the Engineering and Management Doctoral Program at IST, and is currently working on her PhD thesis titled "Design and Performance Assessment of Symbiotic Supply Chains" under the supervision of Professor Ana Carvalho and Professor Ana Barbosa-Póvoa. Vânia is also an invited assistant at the Department of Engineering and Management of IST, where she teaches the courses of Operations Planning and Control and Industrial Management and Environment. Her main research interests include supply chain management, sustainable supply chains, and the circular economy.

Keywords: Circular Economy | Industrial symbiosis | Sustainable supply chains