Biography (Tell us about yourself)
I am a Senior Circular Economy Researcher at the Irish Manufacturing research, Ireland. I currently research on baseline assessment framework and regional resource mapping for the Irish Circular Economy. I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 2008. I completed an Erasmus Mundus Master of Science Degree program in Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management (GEM) from Lund University, Sweden and University of Twente, Netherlands in 2012. I finished my PhD in Geoecology from Potsdam University, Germany in 2017.
Position: Senior researcher
Institution: Irish Manufacturing Research
Degrees: BSc., MSc., PhD
Main research/work interest areas
- Sustainability and impact assessment
- Life cycle sustainability assessment
- Indicator development for Sustainable development goals
- Energy and climate change mitigation potential assessment
- Multi-criteria decision making
Inspirational book/paper related to LCSA
Guinée, J. B., & Heijungs, R. (2011). Life cycle sustainability analysis: Framing questions to approaches. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 15(5), 656–658.
Zamagni, A., Pesonen, H.-L., & Swarr, T. (2013). From LCA to life cycle sustainability assessment: Concept, practice and future directions. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 18(9), 1637–1641.
Guinée J. (2016) Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: What Is It and What Are Its Challenges?. In: Clift R., Druckman A. (eds) Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20571-7_3
Collaboration Interests
Development of Life cycle sustainability assessment-based indicators for assessment of sustainable development goals
Life cycle thinking methodologies for circular economy assessment