Dr. Eleni Iacovidou

Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University, UK

Biography

Dr. Eleni Iacovidou (Brunel University, UK) is a multidisciplinary researcher developing new methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. She combines environmental science and engineering with an understanding of the political, organisational, structural and cultural aspects that act synergistically in a resource recovery system to highlight areas of intervention for promoting sustainability. Dr Iacovidou’s work is focused on plastic packaging waste systems (formal and informal) trying to analyse the processes, stakeholders and complex value involved in such systems, and identifying ways to connect the downstream with upstream parts of the plastic value chain using sustainability transitions. She is a Lecturer in Environmental Management leading teaching on environmental governance, management and sustainable development. She sits on the Industry/Defra Working Group, she is a member of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Brunel University, and the Head of Strategy of the newly established Society of Creative, Regenerative and Sustainable Systems (CRES) (University of Oxford). She previously worked at the University of Leeds, leading research on the valuation of resource recovery from waste and the promotion of ‘recovery’ interventions and digitalisation in the construction sector. Before that role, she led the strategic partnership between Imperial College London and Veolia Environmental Services (VES), fostering collaborations between industry, academia, local authorities and policy-makers. She is chemist by background, with expertise on environmental engineering and environmental management research following studies at the Department of Chemistry, University of Crete and the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.