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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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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.