Biography

Nina is a PhD candidate in the Design for Sustainability research group at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, working on design management for remanufacturing. She specializes in strategic, sustainable, and circular product design. For her PhD she studies the implementation of Design for Remanufacturing at companies.

She pursued a bachelors’ degree in Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft with a focus on sustainability, by following a minor in Sustainable Design Engineering and becoming circular economy ambassador for SustainableMotion, a consultancy based in Amsterdam. During her masters in Strategic Product Design at Delft University of Technology, she further deepened her understanding of sustainable design in her curriculum and her masters’ graduation thesis on Design for Remanufacturing of medical equipment at Philips. An article on the results from her masters’ graduation was published in the ReMaTec News, a remanufacturing news magazine which is linked to the ReMaTec trade show. 

Her professional career started at Spark design & innovation, a product design agency based in Rotterdam, where she worked as a Marketing and Communications Manager. After this, she continued her professional journey at Innoboost, a sustainable strategy consultancy in Amsterdam. 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.

Experience

2018 – present  
PhD, Design for Remanufacturing, Sustainable Design Engineering Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

2017 – 2018  
Researcher, Design for a Circular Economy research group, Delft University of Technology  
 
2017 – 2018  
Circular Economy Specialist, Innoboost  
 
2016 – 2017  
Marketing Communications Manager, Spark design & innovation

Education

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

Academic background

Nina combined her job as a consultant with a research position at TU Delft in which she worked on two EU projects: ‘Key success factors for Re-Use Networks’ (RUN) and ‘Bridging the raw materials knowledge gap for reuse and remanufacturing professionals’ (ReUK). Outcomes of these projects were workshops and idea camps with professionals, and a booklet with best practice examples of remanufacturers.

In the next step of her career, she started working as a full-time PhD researcher on the topic of remanufacturing, to dive deeper into the topic she started looking into during her masters’ graduation and research position: Design for Remanufacturing. The aim of her PhD research is to understand the role of early stage design in the implementation of Design for Remanufacturing in the product development process in industry, by using design management theory. Remanufacturing is applied for various product categories, such as professional imaging equipment, car parts, and household appliances.

As part of her PhD, Nina worked on a workpackage for the development of circular design methodologies for H2020 EU project ‘Recourse Efficient Circular Product Service Systems’ (ReCiPSS). In this project, she collaborated with 13 partners from 8 different countries to set up two large-scale demonstrators of circular manufacturing systems for the companies Gorenje Gospodinjski Aparati D.D. and Robert Bosch GmbH. For more information, you can visit the following website: www.recipss.eu.

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