Radu Godina is currently an assistant professor at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, FCT NOVA, Nova University Lisbon. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Beira Interior (UBI). He is an integrated research member of the Research and Development Unit in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (UNIDEMI), which is part of the Associated Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LASI). He has authored or co-authored more than 165 articles in indexed international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings papers on topics such as industrial symbiosis, sustainability, lean manufacturing, electric vehicles, circular economy, life cycle assessment, and quality control. He has published with 22 international universities and 10 distinct enterprises and/or corporations. He is a member of the EurOMA (European Operations Management Association) and the IEOM Society International Association (Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society-IEOM). He recently developed research in the project Microstructural Engineering and Integrated Non-Destructive Testing-Smart-WAAM obtained through the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) RawMaterials; in this task, the goal is to detail rigorously and perform the life cycle analysis, life cycle cost, and social life cycle analysis of the additive manufacturing process, namely wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). He is the coordinator at UNIDEMI of the project M4ML-Mobility for Maritime Logistics.