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Maria Magdalena Holmgren joined department for Environmental Impacts and Sustainability in June 2024 and is project leader for the EU project CE-RISE from October 1, 2024. In addition, she will develop strategies for innovation and sustainable transition.

Maria Magdalena Holmgren, MSc, has solid experience in innovation management, sustainable transition and organisational development in roles as senior project manager, strategist, and manager. She has led projects on behalf of both business and the public sector. She has +15 years of experience in international project management in industrial contexts, within and outside Europe.

Magdalena is a driven project manager who has initiated and implemented national and international R&D&I of high complexity and built competitive partnerships together with industry, suppliers, technical institutes, universities, and authorities. She has experience in leading innovation and transformation processes in branches of industries such as mining and minerals, cement, and concrete, building and construction, but also in the service sector; in e-health, creative industries, and ICT.

Magdalena is genuinely interested in cooperation, innovation, and resilience. She is passionate about strengthening the research and innovation capacity of organisations and industries into ability for sustainable transition while maintaining competitiveness. Critical innovation and transition metals are one of her areas of interest related to resilience.

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Miguel Las Heras Hernandez is a researcher at NILU, based in the lovely city of Trondheim.

His main area of expertise is in Circular Economy, with a current focus on improving the handling of Electronic Waste to enhance reuse of resources and minimize losses at the end of life. He is part of the coordinating team for the CE-RISE project and actively involved in its research activities. He has experience working on Material Flow Analysis (MFA) of plastics and explored the bioeconomy, particularly the reuse of manure 💩 in Norwegian agriculture to reduce dependency on mineral phosphorus imports. He has also looked into ways to prevent the loss of wood resources in the industry.

Miguel's work is driven by a passion for limiting the impacts of human activities in the environment, while guaranteeing a fair, equal and inclusive society. He integrates his background in Industrial Ecology (MsC. Industrial Ecology, NTNU, 2021) with product design (Engineering Degree, Universidad de Valladolid, 2017) develop innovative solutions that are not only effective but also enjoyable to implement and use.

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Daniel Moran is an environmental economist whose work quantifies the biophysical resources used by the economy. He is an active contributor to global multi-region input-output models (MRIOs) which provide digital twins of the world economy and are used to generate Scope 3 carbon footprint results. Dr. Moran also works with Scope 1 GHG emissions models. His work using data science to develop high-resolution environmental footprints has been featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, and The Economist.

Before starting his academic career Dr. Moran worked on Wall Street pricing ESG risk at MSCI and assisted Nobel laureate Paul Romer writing a Principles of Economics textbook.

Awards:

Clarivate/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019. Among all scientists and social scientists globally, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. Stanford/Elsevier/Scopus highly cited researcher during 2021, 2020, 2019 (Top 1.5% percentile in Environmental Sciences; top 3% in Economics)

Education

• 2013 - PhD, School of Physics, The University of Sydney
• 2007 - MS, Environmental Studies and Sustainability, Lund University
• 2001 - BA, Philosophy, Whitman College

Key words:

data science; industrial ecology; environmental economics; carbon footprinting; biodiversity footprints; embodied water; scope 3; consumption-based accounting; LCA; input-output; material flow analysis; high performance computing

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Francis Barre works as a PhD Candidate jointly at NILU in Trondheim and NTNU, focusing on assessing socioeconomic exposure to natural hazards.

He holds a master's degree from NTNU in Industrial Ecology as well as an engineering diploma from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Saclay in France, both of which he graduated from in 2023.

His PhD work focuses on developing a multisectoral model of the Norwegian Economy at very high geographic resolution. The goal is to help municipalities and industries to reduce risks related to natural hazards, which are growing with climate change.

Apart from his PhD work, Francis Barre has also been collaborating on several European Topic Centres tasks in Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/CME) for the European Environment Agency, developing environmental impact assessment methods such as Input Output (IO) and Life-cycle assessment (LCA).

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Émilien Bourgé works as a PhD candidate jointly at NILU and the University of Oslo (UiO).

He holds a master's degree in Industrial Ecology from NTNU as well as an engineering degree from Centrale Nantes (France).

As part of the REWARD project, his PhD work focuses on identifying and evaluating the amount of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) in Norwegian Waste Electrical and Electronic equipment (WEEE ) and their associated loss during WEEE treatment. The goal is to help WEEE recycling facilities in improving the recovery of CRMs from WEEE.

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Mahsa Motevallian is a Scientific Project Coordinator at NILU with over seven years of experience in managing international and national research and innovation projects. At NILU, Mahsa focuses on sustainability and digitalization, circular economy, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environment and health, and stakeholder engagement. She is experienced in project management, communication, and dissemination, contributing to the success of NILU’s research initiatives.

She holds a Master’s degree in International Environmental Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, providing her with a strong foundation to address environmental and sustainability challenges.

Mahsa manages the EU-funded projects CE-RISE and healthRiskADAPT and serves as a work package leader and co-leader in projects CE-RISE, healthRiskADAPT, MISO, and REWARD. She also contributes to NILU’s Grants Office, where she assists project leaders with proposal development and provides advice on securing large grants.

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Dr. Riccardo Boero is a Senior Scientist at NILU within the Department for Environmental Impacts and Sustainability. His extensive academic and research career has included positions at various European institutions and a decade-long tenure at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, USA, before transitioning to NILU in 2022.

Riccardo holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pavia, Italy, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Surrey, UK. His research spans Climate Impacts Adaptation and Vulnerability, Computational Social Science, and Experimental and Behavioral Economics.

Focusing on the critical social and economic dynamics that drive sustainable progress, Riccardo is committed to open science and dedicated to innovating methodological approaches that achieve significant real-world impacts.

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Marina Hauser (Ph.D.) is a postdoctor at the department of Environmental Impacts and Sustainability at NILU. Her doctorate was in environmental systems science. She has strong background in industrial ecology with expertise in material flow modelling and life cycle assessment, especially for the waste management and treatment sector. In the PLASTCYCLE project she will evaluate the flows of plastic in Norway and analyze different recycling scenarios.

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Evert A. Bouman PhD, Senior Scientist, Department of Environmental Impacts and Sustainability at NILU, P.O. Box 100, NO-2027 Kjeller, Norway

Evert Bouman works on developing methods within the field of Industrial Ecology. His expertise lies in the development of life-cycle based scenario models, drawing on methods such as Life Cycle Assessment, Input-Output Analysis and Material Flow Analysis. These models provide insight in environmental trade-offs, co-benefits and problem shifting related to climate change mitigation policies and policies aimed at circular and sustainable transitions.

He holds Master degrees in Industrial Ecology (2011) and Chemical Engineering (2012) and a PhD in Industrial Ecology (2015). At NILU, Bouman has been task leader for various tasks in the European Topic Centres on Air Pollution, Noise, Transport and Industrial Pollution (ETC/ATNI) and Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/CME) for the European Environment Agency, working among others on methodologies for assessing the benefits and trade-offs of renewable energy sources in the European energy system, decomposition analysis of emissions trends, and emissions outsourcing in global trade. In addition, he is Work Package leader for risk-benefit assessment of engineered nanomaterials in the Horizon 2020 funded European research project RiskGONE, work package leader on the life cycle impacts of plastic recycling scenarios in the nationally funded project Plastcycle, and NILUs principal investigator in the national funded Centre for Science-Based Innovation (SFI) earthresQue. Finally, Bouman leads NILUs in-house model development for sustainability assessment in the project DECIAS.

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Sonja Grossberndt works as scientist at the Environmental Impacts and Sustainability department.

Grossberndt’s work focuses on user engagement, citizen science and science communication. She works also as project administrator in a number of national and international research projects.

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Dr. Cristina Guerreiro is Research Director for Environmental Impacts and Sustainability at NILU, focusing on research and innovation of sustainable and circular solutions for products and systems across different economic sectors.

Guerreiro has a PhD in Chemistry and a MSc in Environmental Engineering. She has more than 25 years of experience in coordinating international and national research and policy support projects in the following areas: air quality, climate change mitigation, environment & health, circular economy, institutional building and stakeholder involvement, and science communication.

She is the coordinator of the EU research and innovation project Circular Economy Resource Information System (CE-RISE). She has led NILU’s work for the European Environmental Agency (EEA) since 2008 and is the Deputy manager of the European Topic Centre on Human health and the environment (ETC HE). She was Coordinating Lead Author of the UN-Environment’s 6th Global Environment Outlook (GEO6) report, as well as chairperson of the CEN/TC264/WG43.

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Dr. Hai-Ying Liu, senior scientist at NILU, combines ecological expertise with a passion for sustainable urban development. She holds an MSc in Environmental Protection from Inner Mongolia University, China, and a PhD in Environmental Biology from the University of Oslo, Norway.

Dr. Liu specializes in the monitoring and assessment of nature-based solutions to enhance environmental quality and public health. Her approach is both interdisciplinary and integrative, tackling the complex challenges of climate change, urban development, and public health. She is particularly focused on fostering community engagement and utilizing multi-actor participatory methods to drive environmental behaviour changes and promote health.

Dr. Liu started at NILU with a postdoctoral fellowship between 2007 and 2008, focusing on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on forest biodiversity. During this time, she also played key role in managing and coording several EU projects. Currently, her work is driven by a vision to integrate environmental quality with urban living, aiming to transform cities into resilient and healthy spaces for future generations. As a senior scientist, Dr. Liu actively leads and support coordination of EU projects and proposals. She also contributes her expertise to NILU’s grants office and sever as an evaluator for both EU and national proposals and projects.