Programme | FTAL Conference

The detailed version of the program can be found here: 20241015_Program_details

Full papers will be presented in traditional scientific sessions, with each presentation allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes for the presentation followed by 5 minutes for Q&A). The presentation will effectively summarize the paper’s key points, methodology, results, and conclusions.

Work in progress and planned projects will be showcased in an interactive poster session in 15 minutes (10 minutes for the presentation and an additional 5 minutes for Q&A). Poster Specifications: Format: Poster are presented in A0 size (841 mm x 1189 mm). Printing: The poster has to be self-printed before the conference. There are no printing services on-site. Design: There are no formal specifications regarding the design of the poster.

Workshops will last one hour each.

Keynote Speakers

Maria Castillo is a Senior ESG Riks Advisor at ECOFACT AG. She leads a variety of ESG risk advisory projects, including providing climate-related advice to financial institutions. She also supports the further development of ECOFACT’s Monitoring Peer Policies program, analyzing and benchmarking the environmental and social risk policies of leading financial institutions. Maria specializes in climate change, nature, fossil fuels and circular economy-related topics. Before joining ECOFACT, Maria was a financial analyst and managed sustainable projects in developing countries. She has worked for private and public institutions, creating cost and impact assessment tools as well as interactive training modules. Maria holds a master’s degree in sustainability and consultancy from the University of Leeds in the UK.

Melanie Haupt is Managing Director of realcycle GmbH and has been working for many years in favour of a sustainable circular economy. After completing her doctorate at ETH Zurich on the ecological optimisation of municipal waste management, she dedicated another four years to research in the field of sustainable circular economy. Today she is a lecturer in waste and recycling management at ETH Zurich and various universities of applied sciences and also runs the consulting agency realcycle GmbH, where she contributes to closed cycles with open thinking. Melanie Haupt is also a member of the board of trustees of PUSCH and an advisor to the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

David Peck: Associate Professor, Critical Materials and Circular Design Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Julianalaan 134, 2628BL, The Netherlands & Visiting Professor, Critical Minerals – Materials and Circular Business, Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.

Associate Professor, David Peck, researches and teaches, cross faculty, in the fields of critical materials and circular design, in particular developing remanufacturing. He is a founding member of the TU Delft Critical Raw Materials working group and the TU Delft Circular Built Environment Hub. In addition David is a visiting Professor with Coventry University, Centre for Business in Society. David is also an adjunct Professor at Graduate School of Management, Politecnico di Milano. David is an Executive Board Member for EIT Raw Materials and ERMA. David also works with ad hoc committees in the European Union in Brussels, The Netherlands Government in The Hague, and is a Horizon Europe reviewer. David sits on the steering committee for the European Remanufacturing Council. He is the TU Delft lead scientist for EU Horizon Europe & Horizon 2020 projects CiRCLETECH, Pop Machina, ProSUM, ERN and FP7 CRM_Innonet. David is TU Delft scientific leader for the EU KIC EIT Raw Materials, representing the university in the programme. David sits on the TU Delft Critical Materials core working group, representing his faculty in developing TU Delft actions in the field.

e-mail: d.p.peck@tudelft.nl

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