Our Research Network

I am an Industrial PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering in the Design for Sustainability section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Grundfos A/S. My research focuses on developing production-level simulation-based models to evaluate manufacturing capabilities towards Net-Zero Emissions. To do so, we are combining Discrete Event Simulation and Life Cycle Assessment. As part of the plan to decarbonise the manufacturing sector, circularity strategies are also under consideration. At later stages in the project, we aim to evaluate whether specific circularity strategies/initiatives in manufacturing setups are supporting or not the net-zero transition.

I am a second-year PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania, with a research focus on the Green Transition. My dissertation explores "Applying Circular Economy Principles in the Built Environment," emphasizing the transformation of waste from natural disasters and end-of-life buildings into valuable resources. This work involves developing circular business models to close material loops, with particular attention to Nordic pilot projects and case studies in the construction sector. In addition to my academic pursuits, I have professional experience as a special consultant in public administration and service department for the Municipality of Asker, Norway, within the Water and Wastewater Department.

My research profile is centred on circular economy, with a particular focus on product policy, ecodesign, and sustainability governance. I examine how policy instruments, regulatory frameworks, and standardisation can support the transition towards more circular and resource-efficient production and consumption systems. My work combines policy analysis with life cycle–based approaches to assess how environmental considerations are implemented and operationalised in practice.

I am a PhD Candidate in Real Estate Science at Lund University/Faculty of Engineering, Department of Technology and Society. My research addresses the matter of sustainability, in the broadest sense, in the real estate and construction industry and focuses specifically on circular solutions in rural areas in Sweden. I hold a master’s degree in architecture and have 10 years of experience working in the field of architecture as well as in public management in Sweden and Germany.

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Fashion/Textile Futures Group, Department of Design, Aalto University, Finland. My work applies social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) to emerging circular value chains in the textiles and packaging sectors. In EU-funded consortia, I collaborate with industry partners to identify and mitigate social risks such as employment disruption, community impacts, consumer acceptance, and supply-chain vulnerabilities. I also supervise master’s and doctoral students to expand the research network around S-LCA in circular transitions. I received my doctoral degree from Tampere University (Materials Science and Environmental Engineering) in 2022, where I evaluated the environmental and techno-economic feasibility of converting agricultural residues from North India into specialty chemicals and biochar via small-scale mobile pyrolysis.

Arlind Dervishaj is completing his PhD and continuing as a postdoctoral fellow at KTH. His research interests include circular construction, building science, and digital innovations. His work addresses the transition toward a circular and regenerative built environment. Arlind's doctoral research at KTH, conducted as part of the EU Horizon 2020 ReCreate project, focused on the Nordic context and Sweden, exploring digital workflows, traceability, BIM modeling, and LCA for the reuse of precast concrete elements from deconstructed buildings. He also contributes as an invited expert and committee member at the Swedish Institute for Standards (SIS/TK 191 AG2) for the development of the Swedish reuse standard for concrete. Additionally, his work bridges circular economy with sustainable design. He has developed new daylighting methodologies, such as Sunlight Autonomy, which are highly relevant to high-latitude Nordic regions, as well as to dense urban environments globally. As cities densify, the building envelopes most evolve too; his research introduced the Solar Circularity Indicator, a novel metric linking daylight design with circular strategies in façade design and engineering. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) on a project investigating daylight within a circular and sustainable built environment, funded by the Daylight Academy. Prior to joining KTH, Arlind accumulated international experience as an architect across Europe, including serving as Head of Sustainable and Computational Design at ARCO Architecture Company, Finland’s largest architectural firm.

I am a trained furniture designer from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India and a master's in strategic design from the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen. My PhD, titled ‘Circular Economy (CE) in the Danish furniture industry’ investigates the various aspects of CE that are instrumental in helping the Danish furniture industry transition to more circular ways of functioning. With market demands, governmental mandates and EU regulations as strong forces driving this transition, the aim of the project is to find key areas where there is a knowledge gap and, in the process, highlight methods to bridge those gaps.

I am a last year PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology researching how the Circular Economy unfolds in practice, with a particular focus on recycling. My work examines the complexity and heterogeneity of recycling practices, and their role and limitations in contributing to a Circular Economy. Empirically, my work has been looking into Steel Recycling (mostly in Sweden) and Solar Panel Decommissioning in Sweden, where in the later I have been the main researcher in CircSolar project – which focus has been to develop a proposal for a new national system for the circular management of solar panels in Sweden.

I am Professor of Industrial Dynamics and Head of the Department of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. My research analysis how industries and technologies transform over time, with particular attention to innovation, policy, and institutional frameworks that shape long term industrial change. I draw on innovation and institutional theories to analyse the factors that enable or constrain industrial transitions, especially in sectors under pressure from societal and environmental challenges. Over the past decade, I have focused increasingly on sustainability driven industrial transformation. I study how climate imperatives and circular economy principles influence industrial and technological change, with empirical research on eco innovations, low carbon transitions, and the restructuring of supply chains in capital intensive, process, and natural resource based industries. My work addresses the dynamics of industrial restructuring and the broader transformation processes that shape industries and technologies over time.

I am a third-year PhD Candidate in Supply Chain Management at the University of Trento, in Italy. My research focuses on advancing our understanding of supply chain and organizational dynamics when transitioning towards a circular economy in the manufacturing industry. Beyond this sector, I am dedicated to addressing the timely issue of food loss and waste across the agri-food supply chain. Through my work, I strive to develop innovative solutions that mitigate waste and promote efficiency, contributing to more sustainable and equitable food systems.

I’m a PhD researcher at Copenhagen Business School studying how digital technologies, such as digital product passports, shape systemic change towards a sustainable, circular economy. My work bridges information systems and the circular economy discourse, focusing on how we define and assess value in our economic system. Anchored in the Nordic/EU context, I primarily apply qualitative methods and data collection techniques such as case studies and interviews.

I am in my second year of doctoral studies in the engineering logistics division at Lund University. My research area focuses on circular retail logistics networks, including omnichannel and e-commerce retail. The study is conducted in different retail sectors and includes various aspects affecting the circular logistics network configuration, e.g., logistics transformation, organisational capabilities, material handling responsibility, stakeholders' relationships, etc.

Associate professor in Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Green Technology, SDU His research focuses on environmental and techno-economic assessment of production and consumption systems as means to inform the green transition.

Daniel is a Master's student at RUC.

Disna Eheliyagoda is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in circular economy and sustainability, with experience spanning both academia and industry. She has conducted research in Denmark, across Europe, China, and Sri Lanka.

Ellen Palm takes an interest in plastics governance and how ideas of circularity shape future developments. Currently, she works at Roskilde University in the Velux-funded MarinePlastic II project and studies the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. She has published work on strategies for plastics decarbonisation, narratives and limits of circular (carbon/ plastics) economy, expectations on carbon capture and utilisation and corporate climate targets. Her background is in environmental engineering, and she holds a PhD in Society and Technology from Lund University, Sweden. In her PhD thesis, she adopted an interdisciplinary approach by mapping and exploring the framings and technologies that surround plastics decarbonisation and the proposed mitigation pathway of carbon capture and utilisation.

Eugène is a doctoral researcher in the ‘Sustainable Resource Flows’ project within the Mistra Geopolitics Programme at the Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, LTH, Lund University. He holds an International Relations degree from Tyumen State University and an MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from Lund University. His PhD project draws on environmental, innovation, socio-technical transition, and critical security studies exploring interlinks between circular transformation and security, deconstructing security discourse around circular policies to identify the effects of security concerns on the political approach to circularity and the broad security and geopolitical implications of these policies.

I am an Associate Senior Lecturer at IIIEE, Lund University. My research examines how governance arrangements shape the pace, equity, and material sustainability of energy transitions in the built environment and energy systems. A central strand of my work focuses on large-scale energy renovation. Through research on One-Stop Shop (OSS) models in Sweden and Europe, I conceptualize them as governance instruments that coordinate actors, redistribute risks, and enable decision-making. This work contributed to the establishment of Sweden’s first OSS initiative for residential renovation. I also study sufficiency in the building sector, exploring how governance, design, and institutional incentives can move beyond efficiency toward reducing absolute energy demand across building lifecycles. More recently, I have extended this perspective to energy infrastructures through the concept of Circular Grid Governance, integrating circular economy, lifecycle thinking, and energy justice. My work combines interdisciplinary approaches to support low-carbon, socially inclusive, and materially sustainable transitions.

Giovana holds a BSc in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), with a research focus on Circular Economy (CE). Her work explores CE transitions across different levels - from consumption systems in the apparel industry (PhD thesis) to the manufacturing value chain and collaborative CE transitions (ready2LOOP | Postdoc). Currently, as a Tenure-track Researcher at DTU, she is investigating a CE ecosystem approach. Her interests lie in the establishment, operation, and evolution of circular business ecosystems, the dynamics of consumption systems within these ecosystems, and the positioning of Circular Economy within Absolute Sustainability.

Dr. Hana Trollman is a member of the Supply Chain, Operations Management and Strategy research group at University of Leicester School of Business. She leads the Energy theme of the Indigenous Green-steel for Net-zero Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (IGNITE) Hub. Her research focuses on sustainability including circular economy and supply chains. She has published extensively in leading academic journals on sustainability and ecology, including Ambio: A Journal of Environment and Society, published by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She has chaired and participated in international conferences, and been part of research endeavours such as the UK EPSRC centres on Industrial Sustainability and Innovative Manufacturing in Food, and H2020 project Activating Circular Services in the Electrical and Electronic Sector.

Dr. Jagdeep Singh is an Associate Professor in Environmental Science at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. In his academic career so far, he has investigated the societal sustainability challenges by applying novel approaches, devising innovative assessment frameworks, and adopting methods and tools from other research fields. Specifically, he has advanced the field of sustainable production and consumption in emerging areas, such as circular economy, product reuse, repair and upcycling, the sharing economy, and sustainable business model innovation. Dr. Singh has conducted inter- and trans-disciplinary research with an impact on academia and society.

Jennifer has a strong background in industrial engineering and a deep commitment to food sustainability and waste management. She obtained her master’s degree from Stellenbosch University in an industry funded project for the South African forestry giants Mondi, Sappi and York Timbers. The project gave her a strong foundation in supply chain simulation modelling and optimisation. Her experience as a consultant for prominent companies in the food and beverage industry, such as Heineken and Nedan Oils, underscores her ability to apply her expertise in practical, industry-specific contexts. Currently, she holds a doctoral position at Lund University, in the Division of Engineering Logistics at LTH. Her research focusses on the role of governance mechanisms, such as contracts and incentives, in contributing to (or mitigating) food waste at the manufacturer-retailer interface. Her research incorporates both circular economy and industry 5.0 themes. Furthermore, she works as course assistant and teaches in the course Sustainable and Circular Supply Chains (MTTN90) at LTH.

Joakim Kembro is an Associate Professor, awarded the distinction of Excellent Teaching Practitioner at Lund University, Sweden. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a logistician in various positions with the United Nations. His research interests include humanitarian logistics, retail logistics, warehouse operations, information sharing, and circular economy. Joakim has received multiple Emerald Awards as well as the Bernard J. LaLonde best paper runner-up award and the Impact Innovation Award at the Journal of Business Logistics. His research has appeared in Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Logistics and others. He serves as Senior Associate Editor at International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and supports Journal of Business Logistics in the role as Senior Editor.

I am a third-year PhD candidate at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology. My research focuses on sustainability reporting in accordance with the EU's CSRD directive and the accompanying ESRS standards, specifically on the internal effects of the mandate within obligated companies. When possible I am particularly interested in reporting under ESRS E5 Circular Economy, and I expect to work more closely on the circular economy after achieving my PhD.

Julie Robin is an Associate Professor at IAE Poitiers (Business School of the University of Poitiers) and holds a PhD in Management Sciences. Her research is rooted in public management, with a particular focus on territorial governance, strategy, and inter-organizational dynamics. Her doctoral work examines the mechanisms underlying the development of circular economy public policies through a relational analysis of interactions between public and private actors. Alongside her research, Julie Robin teaches strategy, CSR, management, business intelligence, and international trade. She also contributes to interdisciplinary research projects addressing socio-ecological transition and circular economy issues.

My research focuses on how established, large corporations benefits from innovative startups with environmental innovations. My teaching combines environmental topics with innovation and entrepreneurship, catering to both students and professionals.

I’m a professor and Head of Section at Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University. I further lead our Center for Interdisciplinary plastic Research.

My name is Lovisa Harfeldt-Berg and I am a researcher with a focus on circular economy, industrial symbiosis, and systems thinking. In my work, I explore how industries and societies can collaborate to close resource loops, reduce waste, and create more resilient systems. I am particularly interested in the practical challenges and opportunities that arise when diverse actors come together to implement industrial symbiosis, and how systems thinking can help us better understand and manage this complexity.

Corporate CE targets are currently often without value or lack triangulation with ecological impacts. My PhD in collaboration with the WBCSD’s & UNEP’s “Global Circularity Protocol” studies how companies can set corporate science-based Circular Economy targets in line with Planetary Boundaries.

Magnus Harfeldt-Berg conducts research within the field of operations and supply chain management. His research interests include supply chain strategy, supply chain sustainability, and empirical research methods used in social sciences, such as management, for instance. His work, as of today, primarily concerns the implications of different positions of the customer order decoupling point. From a methodological point of view, Magnus works extensively with statistical analyses such as factor analysis and regression analysis, but he has also done case studies and systematic literature reviews.

I research the business side of the circular economy, focusing on how companies can integrate circularity principles while remaining economically viable. My work explores how innovations in products, services, business models, and value chains can be designed and managed to support both profitability and reduced resource use. My PhD centred on applying life cycle costing (LCC) to enable these goals, and I have also worked with product-service systems (PSS) and industrial symbiosis (IS). I am based in Sweden and much of my research is carried out with Nordic organisations including not only companies but also actors within entrepreneurial ecosystems. I have led and contributed to several projects in Sweden and across Europe, including initiatives on circular workwear, industrial symbiosis in large industries, and circular solutions for vehicles and furniture. This work involves collaboration with large firms, SMEs, start-ups, public organisations, and policymakers. I actively disseminate circular economy research through teaching, company workshops, and public talks.

Martin Visby Buchard is a transdisciplinary researcher with a strong background in both academia and practice. He is currently employed as postdoctoral researcher in the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University and as environmental consultant at NIRAS. Martins main field of research is circular economy implementation in various sectors currently focussing on construction and demolition and with a heavy representation in the Nordic Countries. A central focus in his research is how local governments can organize actions to promote preservation of natural resources, minimize waste generation, and reduce environmental impacts, and how market actors can transform practices to push for new market paradigms. Martin holds a master’s in environmental planning and a Ph.D. in circular economy in the build environment, and he has an interdisciplinary profile with expertise ranging from both public planning, regulation and governance, multistakeholder involvement, and business model innovation to environmental impact assessment and material flow analysis.

Engineer and researcher with a PhD in Circular Economy and Waste Systems, currently working as an R&D Manager with a focus on advancing innovation in waste management, material recovery, and industrial decarbonisation. I specialise in system analysis and the strategic integration of emerging technologies as well as targeted policy interventions, into European research, policy, and industry contexts. My work supports science-based decision-making for sustainability transitions. I have led and contributed to multi-stakeholder projects across academic, industrial, and regulatory domains.

Mette Alberg Mosgaard is a researcher in circular economy, focusing on how companies, public authorities, and knowledge institutions can collaborate to accelerate circular transitions. Her research spans circular business models, circular public procurement, product lifetime extension, and the development of circularity indicators and governance frameworks. She leads and contributes to a range of Nordic and European research initiatives, building strong partnerships between academia, industry, and the public sector. Through roles such as Chair of the Tech Centre for Circular Economy (TECH4CE) and long-standing engagement in business sustainability networks, she has helped shape the circular economy agenda in Denmark and beyond. Her work combines internationally recognized research with practical solutions that support organizations and communities in implementing circular economy principles and creating measurable sustainability impact.

Mohit Malik is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lund University, Sweden, working in sustainable and resilient food logistics and packaging systems within the context of Industry 5.0 and circular economy transitions. His research focuses on digital transformation in supply chains through technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital twins, blockchain, IoT, and data-driven sustainability systems. His current work particularly explores circular and resilient food systems, including sustainable logistics, food security, circular packaging systems, and digital innovation for resource-efficient supply chains. His research aims to support the transition toward more sustainable and circular economies in Nordic countries by integrating technological innovation, resilience, and human-centric sustainability approaches into food and logistics systems.

Natalie is a PhD Researcher at the IIIEE, Lund University. Her research is focused on the evaluation of urban decarbonisation policies, particularly the use of green and circular public procurement in infrastructure projects. Her PhD is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and thus has a focus on Nordic cases and other relevant contexts. Prior to her PhD, Natalie worked as a Transport Planner at international engineering firm Arup where she worked on several circular research and implementation projects.

I am an ESG researcher at the Sustainability Center of Copenhagen Business School at the Department of Management, Society, and Communication. My research interests lie at the intersection of sustainability, responsible investment, and circularity. My current research focuses on the impact of the incorporation of circularity into sustainable investments.

Nikoline G. Oturai is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Natural Science and Environment at Roskilde University. As a part of the Center for Interdisciplinary Plastics Research (CIPR), I take a great interest in working across disciplines, mainly in the cross-section between social sciences and the natural sciences within the topic of plastic pollution. At present, I spend the majority of my time investigating how circular economy principles can be implemented in the healthcare sector - a sector with a staggering consumption of textiles and single-use plastics. We work with multiple partners across the value chain to better understand the interconnectedness of a circular transition.

A doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. My research focuses on the sustainable use of renewable natural resources. Specifically, this involves analyzing the wood-based construction policy network, managing circular business ecosystems, strategic planning for the construction industries to achieve circularity and thrive in sustainability transitions.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sustainability and Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark. My main research areas are circular economy, ecodesign and EU sustainable product policies and I teach within areas such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the environmental impacts of companies and prevention of these. I have worked with various companies on how to work with and integrate circular economy into their business models through research projects like CircularTextiles, Design2Use, Circular Innovation in Partnerships and Business Strategies for Sustainable Production 3.0.

I am a doctoral researcher at Aalto University and scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland investigating circular construction supply chains. How do they currently work, what impact do they create, and how could they be improved?

Dr. Sandeep Jagtap is a Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain at Lund University, with expertise in sustainable supply chains, Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies, and circular economies. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Food Supply Chains from Loughborough University and has extensive experience in teaching, research, and industry collaborations. Dr. Jagtap has led numerous projects with industrial partners focusing on digitalisation, IoT integration, and resource efficiency. A prolific author, he is ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford University & Elsevier, 2024) and actively contributes to international networks promoting sustainability in manufacturing and supply chain.

Sofia Lingegård is a researcher at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on public procurement for sustainability and circularity in the public sector, and on how governance and organizational practices can support sustainable and circular business models. Her main empirical areas include infrastructure, healthcare, food systems, furniture, and marine resources, with particular expertise in procurement, contract implementation, and business models in public sector organizations.

Sönnich is currently an Associate Professor on business transformation at the Nottingham Trent University. His postdoc was on business management and circular economy (Lund University), and PhD - in marketing and circular economy (Copenhagen Business School). He is the Lead MSc Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Nottingham Business School. Sönnich also lectures and serves as the module leader for Innovation and Business Transformation, Entrepreneurial Operations and Circular Economy. He is member of the Advisory for Digital Innovation and Circular Economy (DICE) Network+.

I hold a PhD in Innovation and Sustainability with broad experience in climate and environmental work across the public sector, consulting, and academia. I am motivated by developing practical solutions to climate challenges and contributing to the green transition in both public and private sectors. Through CERC, I am eager to connect with peers and explore opportunities for collaboration on future circular economy research.

I did my bachelor in Electronics and communication engineering in India and I got admitted in Innoenenegy double degree masters in energy for smart cities. I already completed my first year of Masters at KU Leuven, Belgium and currently pursuing 2nd year of my masters at KTH Royal institute of technology Sweden and pursuing masters thesis in Nordic roadmap for Circular finance at RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden. Apart from Academics, I also founded a non-profit organization named Green Aura to spread awareness among students about climate change and career opportunities in the green transition. https://greenaura.netlify.app/

Sustainability Scholar with a background on Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Sustainable Operations Management. Experienced product developer with international experience, former MCSA/EurotechPostdoc2 fellow and UTFPR Assistant Professor. Currently a postdoc at Lund University's Design Science Department, investigating the transition of Global Value Chains to the Circular Economy.