Salvador Perez-Canto

Salvador Perez-Canto is a Full Professor in the Department of Business Management and Marketing at the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Malaga (Spain). He began his academic career at the university in 2000. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering (2001) and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering (1997). He teaches in both Master’s and Doctoral programs. His main areas of expertise include Circular Economy, Management Systems, and Production Systems Optimization. He has 26 years of experience in research, teaching, and industry collaboration. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles in leading journals such as Sustainable Development, European Journal of Operational Research, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and Technovation. He has also contributed to numerous Spanish and international conferences and has participated in multiple European and national research projects. In 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University (USA), and in 2018 at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). He is currently a member of the research group “Operations and Sustainability: Quality, Information & Communication Technologies, and Labor Risk Prevention”.