Given the multidisciplinary nature of the Ph-D program, a single research line has been adopted, which has been called Industrial Engineering , including a set of fields of knowledge within this area and in which the Ph-D team has a large research experience. From within this set of fields, one may highlight :

• Sustainable Institutions and ODS.
• Mathematical Programming and Simulation in Production and Logistics.
• Computational Statistics and Stochastic Modelling.
• Supply Chain Management.
• Finance and Entrepreneurship.
• Project management and Quality.