Equipo editorial

Julio César Contreras-Velásquez, Editor en Jefe - Universidad de la Costa (CUC), Colombia

Ingeniero Industrial, PhD en Administración, PhD (c) en Ingeniería. Magíster en Administración de Empresas, Candidato a Magíster en TIC con énfasis en Ciencia de Datos. Especialista en Ingeniería de Operaciones. Conocimiento holístico en Tecnología, Gestión, y Operaciones. Investigador Senior MINCIENCIAS en áreas de Ingeniería, Ciencia de Datos y Operaciones. Miembro del Grupo de Investigación en Innovación y Estrategia, de la Universidad de la Costa, Colombia. Con más de 19 años de experiencia en el desarrollo de proyectos de investigación e innovación a nivel nacional e internacional. Adicionalmente ha publicado más de 50 artículos científicos y capítulos de libros.

Ph.D. Biagio Fernando Giannetti, Editor Asociado - Universidade Paulista (UNIP), Brazil.

Prof. Biagio holds a Master’s and DSc degree from the University of São Paulo (USP). In 1992, he began his career at Paulista University (UNIP) as an Associate Professor and is now a Full Professor at the university. At UNIP, he has coordinated engineering degree courses and currently serves as a Professor in the Graduate Program in Production Engineering (Master’s, Doctorate, and Postdoctoral levels) and leads research activities at the Production and Environment Laboratory (LaProMA). Since 2005, Prof. Biagio has been registered as a ‘Research Group Leader’ in the ‘Research Groups Directory’ of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Since 2016, he has been a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University (BNU) in China’s National High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Program. Prof. Biagio is also a visiting professor at Sonora University (UNISON, Mexico) and the University of Florence (UNIFI, Italy). He has published more than 300 academic works - including books, papers, and conferences - on production and environment. His H-Index on Scopus is 35, and his i10 index on Google Scholar is 100. Prof. Biagio is an Honorary Board Member of the Journal of Cleaner Production, an Associate Editor of the scientific journal Frontiers in Energy Research, President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research, and Global Center Director and founder of the Advances in Cleaner Production Network.

Ph.D. Luc Hens, Editor Asociado- Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek, Bélgica .

Luc Hens graduated as a biologist and received his Ph. D. in Biology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. Until 2010 He was a professor and Chair of the human ecology department. He currently lectures at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (Sofia, Bulgaria), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), and at Lisbon University (Portugal).

He was a senior scientific adviser at the “Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek” (VITO), which is Belgium’s biggest environmental research organization. He is currently retired as an emeritus professor. Professor Hens’ specific area of research concerns the elucidation of interdisciplinary instruments for sustainable development. In this framework, he acted as the promoter of over 80 research projects in Belgium and abroad (Vietnam, Cuba, South Africa, Mozambique, Ghana, Ukraine, and Bulgaria). He promoted master and Ph. D theses works. He participated in Ph. D jury’s in over 10 different universities. Luc Hens is the author or co-author of 130 papers in international peer reviewed journal. He (co-)edited 43 books, and wrote 125 book reviews.

Luc Hens acts as an expert in environmental health policy on several councils in Belgium. Luc Hens is a member of the Belgian Superior Health Council, of which he chairs the the working party on "Chemicals-Environmental health". He equaly chairs the Federal Belgian Committee for the Market Admission of Biocides. Previously he was a member of different environmental policy advisory boards, among which the Federal Council for Sustainable Development. In this capacity he was member of the official Belgian delegation to the UNCED conference in Rio de Janero (Brazil, 1992) and the WSSD in Johannesburg (South Africa, 2002). These activities allowed following from closely the academic and policy development and implementation of sustainable development both in Belgium and abroad. Luc Hens acted and acts as a member of the council of administrations of the Flemish Institute of Technological Research (2002-2008) and the Dirk Frimout Foundation (1998 - now).

He is the Editor in Chief for the Springer journal “Environment, Development and Sustainability”. He acts as the book editor for the “International Journal of Environment and Pollution”. He holds “Doctor Honoris Causa” awards from the universities of Sofia (Bulgaria) and Sumy (Ukraine).

Ivan David Lozada-Martinez, Editor Asociado - Universidad de la Costa (CUC), Colombia

MD - Diploma in Epidemiology. MSc(c) in Gerontology. Full-Time Professor - Head of Biomedical Scientometrics and Evidence-Based Research in Department of Health Science at Universidad de la Costa, Colombia. Chief Scientific Officer (C.S.O.) at Center for Meta-Research and Scientometrics in Biomedical Sciences (Barranquilla, Colombia). Codirector of COOLCEN Cohort - Colombian Centenarians Study. Interest in Meta-Research, Scientometrics, Evidence-Based Research, Centenarians, Healthy Aging, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Translational Medicine, Academic Medicine, Public Policies, and Evidence-Based Medicine. Currently working in 1) Social, clinical and translational research in longevity, healthy aging, and age-related chronic diseases in centenarians; 2) Meta-research and mixed methods analysis in health services and global health research; and 3) Gaps and priorities in health R&D. More than 200 scientific articles published (Scopus). H-index of 19 and i10-index of 39 (Google Scholar)