About

Vitor Miranda de Souza is 41 years-old, born in Curitiba, Brazil. He has a bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, a MSc. and a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from the Federal University of Technology - Parana (UTFPR), for which he's was also a lecturer for twelve years. Currently, he is a postdoc researcher at the department of Design Sciences at Lund University, working on a three year project that investigates how Global Value Chains can accelerate their transition to the Circular Economy, and the effects of this transition on the regional level.