Carolina F. Machado received her PhD degree in Management Sciences (Organizational and Politics Management / Human Resources Management) from the University of Minho in 1999, and Master degree in Management (Strategic Human Resource Management) from Technical University of Lisbon in 1994. Teaching in the Human Resources Management subjects since 1989 at University of Minho, she is since 2004 Associated Professor, with experience and research interest areas in the field of Human Resources Management, International Human Resources Management, Training and Development, Management Change and Knowledge Management. She is Head of Management Department, at Economic and Management School at University of Minho, as well as Head of Human Resources Management Master and Head of Human Resources Management Work Group at University of Minho.J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as honorary professor in several universities/colleges/institutes in China, India and Spain. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering, MSc in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) and Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years), from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra and the DSc (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University. He is Fellow (FIET) of IET-London and Eur Ing by Engineers Europe FEANI-Brussels. He is also Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Engineering and Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining, Tribology & Surface Engineering. He has also interest in Design, Management, Sustainability, Industry 5.0, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, PhD and master’s students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards and honors. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of PhD thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 200. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 300 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 600 articles in journals and conferences (WoS/h-index 70+/17000+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 79+/21500+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 99+/36500+ citations). He was listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University study 2023 (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 2112 World Ranking single year 2022). Also, he was listed in Research.com ranking 2024 (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 82 World Ranking in field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Ranked at 7 National Ranking / 1400 World Ranking in field of Materials Science). 2022/23/24 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Materials Science in Portugal Leader Award [Editor]
