Ir. Boorsma, N.E.
PhD Candidate
Design for Remanufacturing
She specialises in strategic, sustainable and circular product design. For her PhD she studies the implementation of Design for Remanufacturing at companies.
Academic Background
Her career started in Marketing Communications at Dutch product design agency, Spark design & innovation. She continued her path at innovation consultancy Innoboost, working on projects centered around sustainability. One of her assignments was to co-manage a European project, with the aim to developed circular economy vision for the MRDH region (metropolitan region of Rotterdam and The Hague) and to draft a portfolio of projects supporting this vision. Next to herIn addition to her work at the consultancy, she was ahas worked as a researcher at the TU Delft University of Technology for two EU funded EIT KIC Raw Materials projects about remanufacturing and lifelong learning for SMEs.
Education
- 2018 – present
PhD, Design for Remanufacturing, Design Engineering Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 2014 – 2016
Master of Science in Strategic Product Design, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 2010 – 2013
Bachelor degree in Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Experience
- 2017 – 2018
Circular Economy Specialist, Innoboost - 2016 – 2017
Marketing Communications Manager, Spark design & innovation - 2017 – 2018
Researcher, Design for a Circular Economy research group, Delft University of Technology
Lectures and/or coaches students on:
- Mentoring graduation projects related to Circular Product Design
- Coach at the Design Studio for bachelor course "Design for Sustainability"
- Coach for master course Sustainable Design Engineering as part of Advanced Embodiment Design
Involved in the research project(s):
