People
Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya
- Souvik Bhattacharjya is a Senior Fellow and Associate Director at Integrated Policy Analysis Division of TERI. Souvik has more than 16 years of rich experience in the field of energy and environmental research and management consulting. He has undertaken and led various consultancy and research assignments for ministries, bilateral and multilateral organisations and multinational corporations. His areas of work include resource efficiency and circular economy, developing policies and strategies along product and service value chains for promoting 6Rs, industrial ecology, material demand/supply assessments, material flow analysis, life cycle analysis, life cycle cost analysis, impact assessments of industrial/infrastructure projects, price build up for environmental goods and services, trade in environment and resources, etc. He has also undertaken detailed valuation assessments of health and economic impacts from local and global pollution arising from power, transportation, bricks, and selected engineering sectors.
- Primary Emailsouvik.bhattacharjya@teri.res.in
Dr Smitirupa Biswal
- Smitirupa completed her BTech(H) degree in Metallurgical and Materials Science Engineering from NIT, Jamshedpur in 2017 and was awarded university medal on completion. She worked at Hindustan Zinc Limited (Vedanta Limited) before joining UNSW SMaRT Centre as a PhD student in mid-2018. She completed her PhD in 2022 and her research was focused on the application of spent coffee grounds for sustainable iron production. She is also exploring the use of waste plastics in iron and steel production. She is currently working as a researcher at the SMaRT Centre. Her research interests include extractive metallurgy, recycling of carbon-based and oxide materials, solid-state phase transformations, alloy design and high temperature processes.
- Primary Emails.biswal@student.unsw.edu.au
Dr Rita Dhodapkar
- Rita Dhodapkar is the Science Secretary of CSIR-NEERI and Principal Technical Officer in Director's Research cell of CSIR-NEERI. She is working in the research areas of environmental monitoring, water and wastewater management, waste management with respect to urban and rural scenarios, monitoring and mitigation of contaminants of emerging concern, contaminated soil monitoring and remediation. Rita is also a member of the Environment Protection Committee, Bureau of Standards. She is the lead Coordinator for Horizon 2020 and Department of Science and Technology sponsored Research on Water and Wastewater Technologies. Her international collaborations are with 19 European Universities and CSIRO, Australia.
- Primary Emailrs_dhodapkar@neeri.res.in
Ms Elsa Dominish
- Elsa is a Research Principal at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS and is a specialist in the social and environmental impacts of resources and supply chains. She has experience spanning research, consultancy and development projects within research, non-government and private sectors in Australia and Asia, including working in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia. At ISF Elsa undertakes research to inform policies in the areas of circular economy, waste management and supply chain sustainability. She has worked on projects to improve the sustainability of metals and minerals, food, consumer products, e-waste and energy technologies. Elsa has worked collaboratively with clients and partners including government, institutional investors and NGOs.
Dr Melissa Edwards
- Melissa Edwards is Director of the Executive MBA programs at the UTS Business School and a Research Director at the Centre for Business and Social Innovation (CBSI). She researches and teaches about sustainability, sustainable enterprise and responsible management, complexity theory and social impact. Her work draws across disciplines with an overarching aim to understand how people organize, learn and adapt to enable sustainable transitions. She conducts research that draws together sustainability, complexity, social capital and network theories with a focus on social impact and new business models, especially the Circular Economy and B Corps. She has worked as Chief Investigator on various research partnerships, and has a track record of supervision with successful post-graduate placements in academic and industry positions. Melissa is currently a member of the NSW Circular Research Taskforce.
Dr Nargessadat Emami
- Nargessadat Emami is a Research Technician at the CSIRO based in Canberra and a part-time Postdoc Researcher at the University of Iceland. She started her academic path by participating in a three-year bachelor's degree program in Civil Engineering at ISEP in Porto, Portugal in 2012. She received her MSc in Civil Engineering, Specialisation in Renewable Energy - Hydroelectric Engineering at the University of Iceland in 2016. She then completed her PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Iceland in 2021. Her PhD project was focused on Embodied Environmental Impacts from the Built Environment Development - Focus on Buildings. Her professional experiences are in the area of Life-cycle assessment, and sustainability evaluation of built environment.
- Environmental impact assessment, built environment, sustainable development, life cycle thinking life-cycle assessment, construction materials, environmental awareness, environmental planning
- Primary Emailnarges.emami@csiro.au
Dr Nick Florin
- Nick Florin is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, (UTS). He manages the Resource Futures research group and directs and undertakes collaborative research projects with industry and government partners on resource recovery and recycling. His research involves policy options analysis, technology and infrastructure assessment, and stakeholder engagement to improve policy relevance, resource stewardship and supply chain sustainability. Recently, he has advised the NSW Government on circular economy policy and led a major research project for the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation that traced material flows through the waste management system and assessed resource recovery opportunities and pathways towards a circular economy for packaging. Nick has also partnered with Queensland and ACT governments, as well as the Australian Battery Recycling Initiative and the Battery Stewardship Council, on projects supporting the development of product stewardship approaches.
- Product and resource stewardship; resourcing low-carbon energy systems; material efficiency and circular economy
- Primary EmailNick.Florin@uts.edu.au
Dr John Gardner
- John is a social scientist, who has been with CSIRO since 2007. His work examines how people, organisations and communities adapt - how they change in response to new technology, resource shortages and environmental changes. He has previously worked in the areas of water consumption and water recycling, energy consumption and alternative energy technology, and adaptation to climate change.
- Behaviour change, communication, human-computer interaction, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Primary Emailjohn.gardner@csiro.au
Mr Anirban Ghose
- Combining mechatronics, nanoscience, and engineering backgrounds, Anirban has in-depth research and practical experience of recycling material opportunities, and the identification and development of technologies for incorporating recycled materials and goods into useable products. He is currently responsible for managing a team of engineers, taking a lead role in key stakeholder management, including industry partners, working closely with the SMaRT Centre Director to develop relevant IP, and taking a lead role in commercialising Microfactories. He was a core team member in the design and build of the E-waste MicrofactorieTM, launched in 2018, and Green Manufacturing Microfactorie, launched in 2019. He led the design and build of the first production Green CeramicTM Microfactorie in Cootamundra, launched in 2021.
- MicrofactorieTM Technologies, robotics and automation, recycling, sustainability
- Primary Emaila.ghose@unsw.edu.au
Ms Gitika Goswami
- Gitika, with more than twenty-two years of experience in the environment and development sector, has been working as a Senior Programme Director at Development Alternatives (DA) for the last four years. Her current portfolio includes Climate Change Resilience, Inclusive Development and Sustainable Consumption and Production, with a mandate of influencing and supporting public policy in the transition towards sustainable development. Across all the verticals her focus areas of functions are sustainability research, collaborative perspective buildings, capacity development and planning and advocacy for policy change. Her specialisation includes climate change adaptation, nature based solutions, natural capital and SDGs both in rural and urban landscapes. She has been working closely with several networks – CANSA, Adaptation Fund NGO Network (AFN- 11 country network of Global South), IUCN GBM CSO Network for six countries; Green Economy Coalition and is an active working group member of Natural Capital for Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) from India. She has been a speaker at several national and international events, including UNFCCC COPs and side events, Adaptation Fund Board meetings in Bonn, UNCCD COP 14 side events, Natural Capital Working group meetings at the World Bank in Washington DC, OECD in Paris and World Environment Day events in New Delhi, 2018, along with several state level events organised by different partner organisations. She has been appearing as guest speaker in several webinars recently organised by national and international organizations including IUCN, GGKP, Adaptation Fund Board and African Development Bank. Before joining DA, she has worked at WWF-India, UNDP, MoEFCC- NATCOM project and Winrock International India, and has several publications on her work.
- Natural resource management, nature based solutions, climate change resilience, green economy and SDGs
- Primary Emailggoswami@devalt.org
Ms Anisha Gupta
- Anisha Gupta is a professional of the Social and Development sector with an enriched experience in the field of waste and water management. Anisha has delivered propitious outcomes of several projects undertaken for preserving water and processing waste for its sustainable and opportune consumption. Anisha has handled various tasks that include documentations, preparing business proposals and budgets, direct interactions with clients, field team management, designing of projects, proper planning and execution. The ability to fit into multiple roles has helped Anisha understand the development sector minutely. Anisha is currently a Deputy Manager with Development Alternatives.
- Primary Emailagupta@devalt.org
Dr Rumana Hossain
- Dr Rumana Hossain is an expert on innovative solutions for waste challenges. The Recipient of an Australian Postgraduate award in 2015 and UNSW Science PhD Scholarship in 2019, Rumana has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Engineering in Advanced Engineering Management and holds a PhD in Material Science and Engineering. She joined the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) in 2019 as a MICROfactorieTM officer and in 2020, as a Research associate. Rumana is a skilled, professional academic and research specialist with experience across a range of recycling technologies, materials synthesis, and characterisation methods for industrial applications. She is an expert in various analytical, mechanical, and electrochemical characterisation instruments and methods, and materials processing instruments. Her research interest is to utilise waste as a resource in the production of a new generation of green materials/products.
- Recycling science, sustainable consumption and production, circular economy, resource efficiency, waste management.
- Primary Emailr.hossain@unsw.edu.au
Ms Trinayana Kaushik
- Trinayana Kaushik is currently a research associate at the Centre for Resource Efficiency and Governance at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). With a keen passion for sustainability from the very beginning, Trinayana decided to pursue a course and then a career where she has the opportunity to learn and work towards what she loves. Along with colleagues, Trinayana has carried out a carbon foot printing exercise for her university during her academic years. Trinayana is also an ICIMOD Hi-AWARE scholar and have experience in working towards revival of mountain springs in Northwestern Himalayas. At TERI, Trinayana is currently involved with several projects carrying out Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of different materials to ultimately promote the most sustainable and circular materials in the market. Owing to her wide reading, Trinayana has good domain knowledge on diversified issues like global geo politics, international relations, global economy, national and international policy. It is in fact, one of her core research interests, on how we can connect global macro issues with niche national and regional level project outcomes. Looking ahead, Trinayana aspires to take her career into a path with a good blend of scientific technical work and policy based assessment and analysis.
- Primary Emailt.kaushik@teri.res.in
Dr Debishree Khan
- Debishree Khan is a Scientist at CSIR-NEERI. Her research area is solid waste management, remote sensing and GIS. Presently she is associated with the Chemical and Hazardous Waste Management Division in NEERI. She is also working in the Plastic Waste Management in India project sponsored by UNEP. Currently, she is a member of Stockholm Convention Regional Center (SCRC) task force team and involved in the research and development studies in the area of POPs to promote their environmentally sound management, capacity building and awareness raising campaigns in the region.
- Primary Emailk.debishree@neeri.res.in
Dr Ashok Khosla
- Ashok Khosla is a pioneer in environment and development sustainability. His work to develop local, national and global systems and networks for promoting sustainability has had an impact in India and internationally. He taught in the first University course on the environment, at Harvard University; established the first governmental agency for the environment in a developing country, in India; created the first international information system on the environment, Infoterra in UNEP, and founded the first social enterprise for sustainable development, the Development Alternatives Group. He has also helped define the environmental programs of many international organisations, including the United Nations Environment Program, UNDP, the United Nations University and UNESCO. He has been co-chair of the UN’s International Resource Panel and President of IUCN and the Club of Rome, and has served in senior positions with many international commissions, summits and environmental and conservation organizations. Among his awards and honours, he is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and has received the UN Sasakawa Environment Prize, the Zayed International Environment Prize and WWF’s Duke of Edinburgh Medal for Conservation. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in experimental physics from Harvard University.
- Primary Emailakhosla@devalt.org
Dr Taryn Kong
- Taryn Kong is a transdisciplinary researcher at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. She integrates knowledge and methods from qualitative intercultural research, environmental sciences and business finance to research a range of sustainability issues, including climate change adaptation, private sector conservation, Indigenous environmental enterprises and ecological restoration in USA, South Africa and Australia. She is currently working on the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, investigating social dimension of scaling up reef restoration in a way that is inclusive and equitable in the Great Barrier Reef. She is also researching the linkage between public and private investment in sustainability and business models that generate locally relevant co-benefits in place-based enterprises. She plans to cross-pollinate innovation from these two research streams with the emerging circular economy in Australia to support transition to a just, inclusive and sustainable future.
- Primary EmailTaryn.Kong@csiro.au
Dr Asha Lalwani
- Asha Lalwani (Chelani) is a principal scientist at CSIR-NEERI in Nagpur. She has expertise in statistical data analysis, environmental modelling and forecasting using statistical tools such as ARIMA model, regression models, artificial neural networks, fuzzy analysis. Asha has undertaken research in a variety of areas such as the study of systems and optimisation using analytical hierarchy process and grey relational analysis, the study of persistence and self-organised criticality of environmental systems, dispersion modelling of air pollution and source apportionment of particulate matter. She has acquired the expertise through trainings and self-study, and is a highly motivated researcher.
- Primary Emailap_lalwani@neeri.res.in
Dr Katherine Locock
- Katherine Locock is a Senior Research Scientist in the Manufacturing Business Unit of the CSIRO in Melbourne, Australia. She has also held positions as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, a board member of the Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (RACI) and a placement as a policy adviser to Senator Kim Carr. Her research focuses on how chemistry and engineering can deliver solutions to industry challenges across the manufacturing, biotech, agricultural and waste sectors. As part of this, Katherine delivered a comprehensive Global and Recycled Plastics Market Analysis Report in 2017 which report presents market forecasts, trends, major system/technological gaps, likely growth strategies and the outlook for the industry.
- Primary EmailKatherine.Locock@csiro.au
Ms Zeenat Niazi
- Zeenat Niazi, as Vice-President, provides oversight to the policy studies and development action initiatives at the Development Alternatives Group. Her work addresses resilience building in human settlements through Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) strategies, especially green and inclusive circular economy models. She is a third time member of the Board of the Climate Action Network South Asia, member of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee (MAC) of the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme of the UN’s One Planet Network, member of the C&D Waste Sub-Committee of the NITI Aayog on Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Urban Areas, Strategic Steering Committee member of UNEP PAGE Programme in India and the Steering Committee member of the Green Economy Coalition in India. She also contributes to the Global Green Growth Platform. Her programmatic responsibilities include guiding sustainability research focused on local and national strategies and action for sustainable development and climate change response. She leads the policy alliances and partnerships initiatives of the DA Group. Her management responsibilities include quality management, institutional knowledge management and corporate communications systems of the DA group.
- Sustainable resource management strategies, human settlements resilience
- Primary Emailzniazi@devalt.org
Ms Ashwini Pai Panandiker
- Ashwini Pai Panandiker is working as a Fellow at TERI and is based in Goa. A recipient of the prestigious Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship, she has around 18 years of experience in the broader domain of natural resource management. Her experience includes policy related studies with reference to resource efficiency and circular economy, water resources, climate change and vulnerability studies including hydrological modelling, improving water-use efficiency of economic sectors, and environmental impact studies. She was one of the major contributors to the Goa State Strategy on Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy. Ashwini is presently a member of a government selected committee that is revising the Goa State Water Policy. She was also a member of Goa State Expert Appraisal Committee (2013-2016). She has published several research papers, book chapters, and co-edited a book.
- Primary Emailashwini.panandiker@teri.res.in
Dr Suneel Pandey
- Suneel Pandey is presently Senior Fellow and Director, Environment & Waste Management Division, TERI. In addition, he also teaches at the TERI School of Advanced Studies. He has more than 30 years of consultancy/research experience in the areas of municipal, industrial and hospital waste management, plastic waste management, waste-to-energy issues, impact assessment, air, water and soil quality monitoring, site assessments, performance evaluation of ETP and institutional strengthening and capacity building. Prior to TERI he has also worked at ERM India and the University of Hong Kong on hazardous and hospital waste management.
- Primary Emailspandey@teri.res.in
Ms Sherine Thandu Parakkal
- Sherine, a civil engineer by training, specialises in smart city development and management. She is currently engaged with the policy and planning domain of Development Alternatives Group with focus on sustainable urban water, wastewater, and solid waste management, and achieving resource efficiency and circularity in city systems. She has extensive research experience in sustainable planning, designing, and development. Prior to making her way into developmental research, Sherine acquired experience in the construction and real-estate sector with international exposure.
- City systems - water, wastewater, and solid waste management
- Primary Emailstparakkal@devalt.org
Dr Sushma Pardeshi
- Sushma Pardeshi is a Senior Project Associate in the Director’s Research cell of CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur, India. Her research area is Molecular Imprinting of Polymers and DFT based computational Modelling. Presently she is working on the plastic waste recycling, (India-Australian Industry and research Collaboration project).
- Molecular imprinting of polymers, density functional theory based quantum chemical computational modelling (DFT), molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction (MISPE)
- Primary Emailpardeshisushma@gmail.com
Ms Murni Po
- Murni Po is a social scientist working at CSIRO Land and Water in Canberra. Murni’s research interest is on understanding people and how they make their decisions in relation to natural and land resource management using theoretical concepts from the field of social and environmental psychology. Murni has worked in many research areas including urban water (e.g. water restriction, demand management, decentralised water systems, water reuse and recycling), climate change, research for development, agriculture, agroforestry and superannuation. She is currently completing her PhD with University of Western Australia looking at the adoption of new practices amongst smallholder farmers in Indonesia and Vietnam.
- Primary EmailMurni.Po@csiro.au
Ms Natasha Porter
- Natasha Porter is a Social Scientist with CSIRO Land & Water. She has extensive research experience across a variety of domains including water research, energy, land use management, climate change, biodiversity, ecology and circular economy. Natasha has been involved in research focused purely on developing social theory as well as integrating with multidisciplinary projects. Her expertise covers the design and implementation of community based experimental research, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, and project management.
- Primary EmailNatasha.Porter@csiro.au
Ms Farhana Rahman
- Farhana Rahman has completed her Masters' degree from University of Strathclyde, UK on Economic Management and Policy (major: Environmental Economics). She has more than three years of professional experience, she worked with different International organizations. She has several publications; she develops her research skill by working with several institutions.
- PhD Project - Investigating the enablers and barriers for reusable packaging to drive a circular economy: A case for India. This PhD project sits within an interdisciplinary research program spanning the technical, social, institutional, economic, and policy enablers to advance a circular economy for plastics in India. This project will contribute to this program by investigating the enablers for reuse systems in India, particularly where they can reduce the use of short-lived plastics. The overall research initiative aims to facilitate innovation in plastic supply chains and to build research and industry collaborations to drive a circular economy for plastics in India, considering strategies to avoid, reduce, redesign, reuse, and recycle plastics.
- Primary EmailFarhana.Rahman-2@student.uts.edu.au
Dr Monique Retamal
- Dr Monique Retamal is a Research Director in the Resource Stewardship group at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. She specialises in sustainable systems of consumption and production in the Asia-Pacific region. Her research is currently focused on circular supply chains and environmental governance for plastics and textiles. During 2020, Monique led a research project for the Australian Government investigating the impact of the international trade in waste plastics on marine plastic pollution in the Asia-Pacific region. She is also undertaking research on environmental governance of the textiles and garment industry in Asia for the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Monique is leading UTS’s contribution to the India-Australia Plastics Initiative.
- Sustainable consumption and production; circular economy; policy and institutional arrangements for sustainability; business models for sustainability; social practices; resource efficiency and waste minimisation
- Primary EmailMonique.Retamal@uts.edu.au
Dr Laure-Elise Ruoso
- Laure-Elise is a transdisciplinary social researcher with experience in biodiversity conservation, food systems and agriculture, and more recently, climate change and sustainable production and consumption. In her research she uses social science theories and methods to shed light on the social and institutional dimensions of sustainability. This is with the aim to provide recommendations and advice for the development of policies, institutional arrangements, practices and technologies to drive change towards sustainability and align with the expectations and needs of stakeholders. Currently, Laure-Elise’s work is focused on the management of single-use plastics. She is providing recommendations to local government on the reduction and phasing out of single-use plastics and is undertaking foundational research for the India-Australia Plastics Initiative.
- Qualitative research methods, stakeholder engagement, institutional and policy analysis, social research theories (social representations, politics of place, equity framework etc) applied to environmental issues, adaptive capacity
- Primary EmailLaure-Elise.Ruoso@uts.edu.au
Mr Sudhir Sah
- Sudhir is a sustainable development professional having over six years of diverse experience in Green Entrepreneurship, Technology and Market Validation and Renewable Energy. His work facilitates Low Carbon Development pathways in India and other countries in the Global South through technology and know-how mapping and transfer, enterprise solutions and capacity building. He is experienced working with SMEs of India and Malawi for accelerated adoption of cleaner technologies aimed at mitigation of carbon emissions primarily from the construction and waste sectors, and the creation of Green and Inclusive Jobs locally. Sudhir is currently working with Technology and Action for Rural Advancement (TARA), a social enterprise of the Development Alternatives Group, and has been able to synergize interdisciplinary expertise and system-based thinking to deliver results. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela.
- Enterprise development, technology and market validation
- Primary Emailssah@devalt.org
Professor Veena Sahajwalla
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla is an internationally recognised materials scientist, engineer and inventor revolutionising recycling science. She is renowned for pioneering the high temperature transformation of waste in the production of a new generation of ‘green materials.’ In 2018 Veena launched the world’s first e-waste MICROfactorieTM and in 2019 she launched her plastics and green ceramics MICROfactoriesTM. As the founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, she is producing a new generation of green materials and products made entirely, or primarily, from waste. Veena was Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for ‘green manufacturing’, a leading national research centre working with industry to translate her recycling science into real world applications, that concluded in 2019. In 2020, Professor Veena won and was made Director of two new research and industrial transformation Hubs: the ARC Microrecycling Hub, and the NESP Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub. Both of these national, collaborative hubs involve leading research institutions and industry stakeholders from across Australia. In 2019 she was honoured by Engineers Australia as a Centenary Hero for her work (https://www.createdigital.org.au/meet-engineer-helping-people-see-huge-possibilities-circular-economy/). In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, while in 2016 Veena was named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers; in 2015 Veena was named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Engineers by Engineers Australia. In 2013, Veena received the ‘Howe Memorial Lecture Award’, Pittsburgh, USA in appreciation for her lecture on ‘The Power of Steelmaking – harnessing high temperature reactions to transform waste into raw material resources’, and in 2005 she won Australia’s preeminent science award, the Eureka Prize.
- Primary Emailveena@unsw.edu.au
Dr Heinz Schandl
- Heinz Schandl, PhD in Sociology, is a senior science leader at the CSIRO based in Canberra. Heinz leads a research group for Urban and Industrial Transformations in CSIRO’s Land and Water Program and his research looks at economically attractive opportunities for resource efficiency, waste minimization and greenhouse gas abatement. He leads CSIRO’s Circular Economy Initiative and looks after CSIRO’s global research for understanding the environmental impacts of population and consumption identifying policies and technologies that guide a transition to sustainable consumption and production.
- Sustainable consumption and production, circular economy, institutional and policy analysis, metrics, data and indicators
- Primary EmailHeinz.Schandl@csiro.au
Ms Riya Shanker
- Riya Shanker, M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, is a Project Associate in the Director's Research cell of CSIR-NEERI at Nagpur, India. She is involved in many projects which deal with aspects of solid waste management, particularly in organic waste and their cellulose content. She has also been involved in a plastic related project with WWF, India.
- Primary Emailriyashanker1997@gmail.com
Ms Radhika Sharma
- Radhika Sharma is a Project Associate in the Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division, CSIR-NEERI Nagpur, India. Her research work was focused on E-waste plastics during her Master’s degree. Currently, her area of research is plastic waste recycling technologies and the circular economy of plastic. Her role includes stakeholder engagement and technology selection for plastic recycling technologies using the MCDM - AHP-integrated GRA process. Her research interest is Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and innovations in plastic recycling.
- Primary Emailradhika280397@gmail.com
Ms Mandavi Singh
- Mandavi Singh is currently working as a project Associate at the Centre for Resource Efficiency & Governance Division of TERI, New Delhi, India. Mandavi has a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences and a MOEF&CC, Government of India, certified Greenbelt developer for Industries, has trained at CSIR National Botanical Research Institute, India, and is a Directorate of Environment Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India, certified Miyawaki professional. Mandavi has prior experience of working in Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), of the mining sector.
- Primary Emailmandavi.singh@teri.res.in
Dr Simran Talwar
- Simran is Senior Research Consultant in the Resource Stewardship group at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, and project manager for UTS’s contribution to the India-Australia Plastics Initiative. She has over 11 years of research and industry experience in circular economy, policy, and business strategy. Simran’s research areas are cross-disciplinary, spanning circular economy, industrial ecosystems and networks, competitive dynamics, and technological, structural, and institutional transformation for sustainability. Her doctoral thesis was an empirical investigation into the circular economy, with a focus on closed-loop materials, energy and water exchange networks and industrial symbiosis ecosystem emergence. She has undertaken applied research across chemical, pharmaceutical, construction, cement, steel, and bio-products industries.
- Circular economy, industrial ecology, business models and strategy, policy and institutions, capacity building, net zero emissions, renewable energy
- Primary EmailSimran.Talwar@uts.edu.au
Dr Sorada Tapsuwan
- Sorada is a Senior Research Scientist (specialisation in environmental and natural resource economics) with CSIRO Land & Water. She is an expert in non-market valuation and has valued environmental assets using a variety of techniques, including contingent valuation, choice modelling, travel cost and hedonic property price (HPP) methods, across a wide area of research domains, such as marine park management, urban water demand and supply management, rural and irrigation water management, transportation, land use management, technology adoption, biosecurity management and climate change.
- Primary EmailSorada.Tapsuwan@csiro.au
Dr Andrew Terhorst
- Andrew Tehorst is a computational social scientist with CSIRO Data61. He has extensive research and consulting experience across various domains, including corporate sustainability, mineral exploration, environmental impact assessment, natural resource management, and urban and regional planning. Andrew has remote sensing, spatial analysis, social network analysis, and natural language processing expertise. His current research focuses on open innovation, particularly on knowledge diffusion and brokerage. Andrew is particularly interested in sustainable business models and how open innovation can facilitate the emerging circular economy.
- Primary EmailAndrew.Terhorst@data61.csiro.au