Stijn is a Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. His PhD was on the use of waste as a resource in global material life cycles and was partly conducted at the Center for Industrial Ecology at Yale University. Stijn was a visiting researcher at the UK government, working on policies for resource efficiency and the circular economy. Prior to starting the PhD, Stijn obtained an MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology and an MSc in Public Administration from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.