Isabel Duarte de Almeida is an assistant professor with 25 years of experience in higher education and coordinator of research on sustainable development. She teaches at ISCTE-IUL, Portugal, and at the University of Lusiada and participates in academic activities abroad: Institute of Management (IfM), University of Cambridge; University of Palermo (UniPa), Sicily, Italy; Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) in Germany. Dr Isabel Almeida holds a 5-year degree in Biology from the University of Lisbon (UL/FC, Portugal). She holds a postgraduate degree in Sociology, a first PhD in Biology from Lisbon University, and a second PhD in Sociology and Sustainability Management from the New University of Lisbon (UNL /FCSH, Portugal). She also holds a postgraduate degree in Circular Economy from Berkeley University. Isabel has been a researcher at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science for 12 years. She has indexed articles in SCOPUS scientific publications Q1 and Q2, published many articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and is a reviewer for AoM and EurOMA conferences. She is also a reviewer for Springer's "Environment, Development and Sustainability" and the "Journal of Rural and Community Development". Her research interests include sustainable development, circular economy, corporate and social responsibility, corporate sustainability and green supply chains.

Current research projects

-Project I: "INOVMINERAL 4.0 - Advanced technologies and software for mineral resources". The project's overall objective is to reorient innovative industrial models for the extractive industry by developing advanced technologies, new products and software for the entire value chain: upstream processes, valorisation of mineral resources and market.

Partners CEI (Coord.); FRAVIZEL; FRONTWAVE; STREAMVALUE CONSULTING LDA; MARFILPE; SOLANCIS; INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE LEIRIA; FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA; UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, ACPMR; INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO; SAVANNAH, among others.

- Project II: "The value of transdisciplinary projects: a sustainable path in academic research". It is a transdisciplinary study on the future of teaching in the management field, analysing the global, complex and diverse reality that determines professional and academic activity. The aim is to (i) identify problems in professional practice arising from gaps in academic education, (ii) discuss proposals for sustainable solutions in the paradigm of transdisciplinarity, and (iii) overcome the boundaries of disciplinary fields inherent in the teaching and professional practice of managers.

- Project III: "Business students' perceptions of ethics and sustainability in business". This strand of research addresses business students' perceptions of business ethics and sustainability management by examining cases of ethical dilemmas.