Federica Costa has been collaborating with the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano since 2016.

She is an Industrial Engineer from Polimi and she completed her Ph.D at Politecnico di Milano in 2020, specializing on Labour Flexibility and Production Planning and Control in non repetitive companies.

From that year, she has been working as post-doc research fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, working on different research topics in the field of Operations Management, with specific concern on Operational Excellence and Sustainable Continuous Improvement, Production Planning and Control, Lean and Industry 4.0 and Lean and Green Management.

During and after the Ph.D period, Federica Costa has been lecturer and teaching assistant in courses at the Bachelor and Master of Science of Politecnico di Milano and in graduate, post graduate and executive courses at GSOM.

Moreover, she has been involved in several industrial projects, participating in defining the research problems and as the main investigator.

Since 2022 she is a Junior Assistant Professor and her main activities are:

• Researching on the abovementioned topics in collaboration with the Lean Excellence Research Group – Politecnico di Milano
• Lecturer and Teaching Assistant in Operations Management (10 ects) and Industrial Management Toolbox (5 ects) at the Master of Science of Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and in Gestione dei Sistemi Logistici e Produttivi at the Bachelor of Polimi