Najat BARA earned her PhD in Management Sciences from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2020. After completing her thesis, she engaged in over three years of postdoctoral research in various laboratories across different countries, including EMINES - School of Engineering at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco, the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Canada, and CentraleSupélec in Paris. Her research focuses on decision support models in supply chain management, particularly simulation and optimization, economic evaluation of decisions, urban transport and logistics, and sustainability. Part of her work has been published in various journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, and Production Planning & Control. Her research was conducted in collaboration with leading companies such as the OCP Group, Safran, Saint-Gobain, and L’Oréal.