Materials Circular Economy - Meet the Editors
Editor-in-Chief:
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, Everest Chair is a world-renowned scholar of cross-fields at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which is ranked among the top eight universities in the world. He is named among the World’s Most Influential Minds (Thomson Reuters), and World’s Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics). He advocates materials circular economy solutions to decarbonize economies. He is a leading voice in Singapore’s sustainability development advocacy. He is a chartered engineer (Sustainability), Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES). He is the Director of Centre for Nanotechnology and Sustainability. He is a POC for the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment (MSE) Singapore on the circular economy competency and skillsets. He is a member of Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR Advisory Committee of National Environment Agency (NEA) | MSE. He is the Dy Chairman of Sustainability Cluster at the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), and also an advisor to the IES Green Plan 2030. He is a member of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) committee at the Singapore Institute of Directors. He is a member of ISO technical committee on Circular Economy. He is a member of the Environment & Resources Standards Committees of Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF), Singapore Chemical Industry Council (SCIC) and Standards Development Organization (SDO). He is a member of Beverage Containers Return Scheme Stakeholder (BCRS) Group facilitated by NEA, Singapore. His book on Circular Economy received 2021 Springer Nature China New Development Award. European Commission Director-General for Environment, Excellency Daniel Calleja Crespo said “Professor Seeram Ramakrishna should be praised for his personal engagement leading the reflections on how to develop a more sustainable future for all”. He co-authored books ‘Sustainability for Beginners’; ‘Circular Economy’; and UNESCO Book entitled ‘Knowledge-driven Actions: Transforming Higher Education for Global Sustainability. He teaches graduate course ME6509 Materials and Sustainability. He is a Board Member of Plastics Recycling Association of Singapore, PRAS and the Chairman of Plastics Recycling Centre of Excellence, PRCOE. He is an evaluation panel member for the $3 million Prize by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste; CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge 2023; and Enterprise Singapore evaluation panel for the Start-up SG Tech Scheme. He is a judge for the MIT Technology Review – TR35 Asia Pacific. His senior academic leadership roles include University Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; and Founding Chairman of Solar Energy Institute of Singapore. He is also an elected Fellow of AAAS, ASM International, ASME, AIMBE, USA; IMechE and IoM3, UK; ISTE, India; and IUBSE. He is an elected Fellow | Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, China; Royal Academy of Engineering, UK; National Academy of Engineering, India; ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, AAET; and Singapore Academy of Engineering.
Associate Editor-in-Chief:
Professor Rajan Jose supervises the Nanostructured Renewable Energy Materials Laboratory in the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). He investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and received his PhD degree in 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of diverse range of materials including metals and alloys, luminescent quantum dots for biological and energy applications, glass and glass ceramics for quantum electronics, and electrochemical materials for energy conversion and storage. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 200 papers in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) indexed journals which are cited nearly 10000 times with an h-index of 52. He also holds 25 patents nationally and internationally. His current research interests include circular economy, data science, renewable materials and devices; most of his research is on the structure – property relationship in materials for a desired device functionality.
Associate Editors:
Dr. Angela Daniela La Rosa is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in the Group of Sustainable Composites of the Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering, Gjøvik site. She obtained a Laurea degree in Applied Chemistry in 1994 from the University of Catania, Italy. Since 2001, she has a PhD in Polymer Science, with most of the work done in the Strategic Technology Group of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) UK. She is also currently manager R&D in remote of the company All Green srl (Romania). Her main research activity is focused on the evaluation of life cycle assessment (LCA) of new formulations of polymer composites and bio-composites. Her research and teaching interests include LCA, sustainable development and circular economy as well as the production and end-of-life processes of polymers and polymer composites.
Dr. Anshu Padayachee is currently the CEO of the South African Technology Network (SATN) with membership from technology focused universities and institutions. Prior to this, she was the CEO of SANPAD, a bilateral research programme between South Africa and the Netherlands.
Following her illustrious career, Anshu was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the then M L Sultan Technikon from 1998 to 2002 and Acting Vice Chancellor from 2001 to 2003. She has been involved in the management, teaching and research at universities for thirty (30) years and obtained her Masters degree cum laude, a D.Phil. in Criminology, a University Teachers Diploma and a Harvard Certificate in Higher Education Management. She is a qualified and registered Hypnotherapist and a trained Counsellor in domestic violence.
She was the first South African Black women to obtain a D.Phil. in Criminology. Her Dissertation on Domestic Violence was used extensively as a source guide for the promulgation of the prevention of Domestic Violence Act and the subsequent Domestic Violence Act. She developed and designed three training manuals and training programmes in the area of Domestic violence for the Police, Social Services and Crisis Interventionists. Anshu together with Judge Navi Pillay, set up the first NGO for domestic violence in South Africa called ‘The Advice Desk for the Abused.’ She continues to work in the field of gender activism and is a gender commentator.
Dr. Bing Zhang is currently Professor in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research interests are mainly in polymer material advanced manufacture and recycling system. He is also interested in the life cycle processing optimization based on environmental economic evaluation for polymer material, and pyrolysis recycling for mixed polymer wastes. He has currently active scientific collaborations with Universities and enterprises in UK, Germany, France, Netherlands and Japan.