Inês Duarte is a researcher at the Centre for Management Studies at Instituto Superior Técnico. She is a Biomedical Engineer who graduated in October 2021 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. Her master’s thesis focused on developing an optimisation model for the planning and distribution of vaccines in global pharmaceutical supply chains. In October 2022, Inês began her PhD in Engineering and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico and is currently working on her thesis titled “Design and Planning of Resilient and Sustainable Pharmaceutical Supply Chains” under the supervision of  Professor Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, Professor Bruna Mota, and Professor Tânia Pinto-Varela. She has been part of a research team in the project "FuturePharma: Pharmaceutical Supply Chain of the Future" and has published in leading journals and book series. Inês also serves as an invited teaching assistant in the Department of Engineering and Management, where she teaches the master’s course in Logistics and Operations Management. Her main research interests include sustainable supply chain management, social responsibility integration, and decision-support systems.

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Supply Chains | Optimisation | Sustainability