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Cátia Medeiros da Silva

Invited Assistant Professor

Centro de Estudos de Gestão do Instituto Superior Técnico

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Cátia Medeiros da Silva completed her PhD in Engineering and Management in 2022 with Distinction and Honour at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico. She completed her Masters in Civil Engineering in 2015 at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico. She is a Researcher at the University of Lisbon, CEGIST Center for Management Studies of the IST and Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering and Management, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. Her main research interests are supply chain management, logistics, sustainable supply chains and decision support systems. She has participated in several international conferences related to supply chain and operations research fields. She is involved in a European project that aims to develop comprehensive and innovative models for the design and planning of sustainable supply chain under uncertainty. She has published 5 articles in specialized journals. It has 2 book chapters. She organized 2 events. She has received 5 awards and/or distinctions. She participated as a Research Fellow in 2 projects. In her professional activities she interacted with 25 collaborators in co-authoring scientific works.

Research Groups

Projects

Implementing Sustainable Low And Non-chemical Development in SIDS (ISLANDS) in Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tomé & Príncipe - Implementation Phase

 Implementation of capacity-building systems for the various government bodies and stakeholders in the identification and management of hazardous chemicals and hazardous chemical waste. Implementation of green purchasing practices at public level. Life Cycle Assessment of hazardous chemicals and hazardous chemical waste in electrical and electronic equipment, end-of-life vehicles, agriculture and tourism. Proposal and implementation of circular economy logistics systems for the treatment and recovery of waste containing hazardous chemicals.

mSSChain - Managing Sustainable Supply Chains Sustainable Supply Chains

The m-SSChain project address the research questions how to design, plan and operate Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) under an uncertain environment. Within this scope, the project aims to develop comprehensive and innovative general models for the design, planning and operation of resilient SSC under uncertainty. These models will be validated using real industrial cases.

Contacts

CEGIST - Centro de Estudos de Gestão
do Instituto Superior Técnico

Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 77 29 (ext. 1729)
Fax: +351 21 841 79 79
E-mail: cegist@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Sponsored by
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Financed by Portuguese funds through the 
FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., 
under the projects UIDB/00097/2020 and UIDP/00097/2020

Host Institution
IST Lisboa