Julia Stegemann, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, University College London
Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study “offers world-leading researchers a unique space for transformative reflection in and beyond individual disciplines.” Professor Julia Stegemann will be an IAS Fellow at St. Aidan’s College, January-March 2027.
Work package 6 Lead for ELEMENTAL Engineering Biology Mission Hub, Julia has been doing research to support resource efficiency and rational decision-making about environmental technologies for more than thirty years. She is a founding Director of CircEL, the UCL Circular Economy Laboratory, a hub for research and education on resource efficiency that spans the breadth and depth of UCL expertise in this area, and PI and Director of the £8M UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Mineral-based Construction Materials (https://ce-hub.org/centre-for-mineral-based-construction-materials/).
She is currently closely involved with projects to investigate the geochemical basis of the metabolism of toxic metals in the cement kiln during co-processing wastes, re-use timber waste, and developing tools to enable use of anthropogenic resources.
Durham IAS Project description
This project explores the re-using or re-generating of wastes as resources, known as ‘Circularity’, exploring the gap between what circularity is imagined to be, and trajectories of materials in practice.
Primary participants
Principal Investigators:
Professor Gavin Bridge, Geography
g.j.bridge@durham.ac.uk
Professor Chris Greenwell, Earth Science
chris.greenwell@durham.ac.uk
Visiting IAS Fellows:
Professor Myra Hird, Queen’s University, Canada
Professor Julia Stegeman, University College London
Yuyun Ismawati, Nexus3Foundation