Ana Isabel Carvalho has obtained her degree in Chemical Engineering in 2005. In 2009 she has finished her PhD in Chemical Engineering. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Portugal. She is a researcher in the Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST). Her research interests are related to sustainability, more specifically applied to process design and retrofit. She has also been working in sustainable supply chains, definition, assessment and optimization. Life cycle assessment for environmental and social evaluation are also on her research work. She has published several papers in peer reviewed international journals and she has extensively presented her work at national and international conferences. She has been awarded by several national and international awards, in pedagogical and scientific activities (e.g. Sustainable Engineering Forum Student Paper Award- AIChE).