About

Since 2023 Rector´s delegate for African cooperations for RWTH Aachen.
Since April 2021, founder and scientific reference of Circular srl consulting, and in 2023 Circular developed the first Social Product Declaration and PCR in the world under the mandate of HItachi Rail.
Since 2018 Critical reviewer of several LCA studies according to ISO 14040 and ISO 14044.
Since June 2017 Marzia Traverso is Professor and Director of the Institute of Sustainability in Civil Engineering.
10.2020-11.2022 Rapporteur of the Technical Working Group of the First European Platform for Sustainable Finance developing the inputs for the 2nd DA of European Taxonomy Regulation.
05.2016-05.2017 She worked as a Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville, responsible for the development of criteria for Green Public Procurement on Street Lighting, of Transport and for the Building Sector. She was also part of the BMW Group as a project manager at the Research & Innovation Centre. There she was responsible for the sustainability performance and LCA of several cars, such as BMW i3 and BMW i8. During her post-docs she worked at the Chair of Sustainable Engineering at TU Berlin and focused on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment.
She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Social LC Alliance (www.social-lca.org/) and subject-editor for SLCA of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. She is author and reviewer of several international peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of LCA. She is also a member of the Italian Network of LCA and the founder of the non-profit organization Information for Sustainable Development (iSuD).