Dr Roger Morton

Opportunity: Recovering battery grade graphite and other battery materials in addition to cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium

Challenge: How to distinguish rigorously between carbon benefits of recycling pre-consumer and post-consumer end of life materials

Roger is a chartered chemical engineer with a PhD in integrated chemical process design from Manchester University. He has worked in the recycling sector for the past 20 years. He co-founded Axion Consulting and Axion Polymers in 2001. Over the 20 years prior to forming Axion he held general management positions in chemicals, textiles and building materials.

Roger left Axion in 2019. He joined European Metal Recycling in 2020 as Managing Director for Technology and Innovation. He leads EMR’s initiatives in battery and electric vehicle recycling, reusable steel for construction, new recycled steels to support decarbonisation of bulk steel production and recycling of wind turbines and other renewable energy assets.

Dr Robert Reinhardt

Opportunity: Uptake of sustainable and circular business model innovations for a circular (e-)mobility/transport sector

Challenge: Adoption of (sustainable) value chain thinking (instead of supply chain thinking)

Dr Reinhardt is working as a sustainable business & strategy consultant, researcher and cross-disciplinary strategist focusing on establishing the business case for sustainability with a proven track record of driving sustainable innovations in academia, businesses and international organisations through a science and evidence-based approach. He is applying his academic and industry background in business management, environmental science, and industrial engineering within academia and international organisations where he works on cross-sectoral projects in the areas of sustainable and circular business model innovations, life cycle and value chain thinking, circular economy and sustainable consumption and production.

Dr Rachel Waugh

Opportunity: Increasing use of green parts (i.e., remanufactured, repaired, reused etc.) to reduce emissions.

Challenge: How we manage the transition away from ICE vehicles to BEV/FCEV recognising the embodied energy/emissions in the existing vehicle parc?

Rachel Waugh, Principal Consultant at Oakdene Hollins, has a background in resource and process efficiency through her PhD in Engineering and her MA in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Her PhD explored ways to halve carbon dioxide emissions in the global steel and aluminium industries. Rachel joined Oakdene Hollins in 2013 and has contributed to studies to evaluate and quantify remanufacturing markets for Malaysia, Scotland and Europe, and value retention markets in Canada and most recently, the UK. Rachel participates in the Auto Council’s Net Zero Manufacturing and Supply Chain group and previously led on the Cars as Materials Banks project for the APC.

Professor Jonathan Cullen

Professor Jonathan Cullen is the University Lecturer in Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure. He leads the Resource Efficiency Collective and has a reputation for top-down studies of resource systems, bringing skills in developing new metrics to reflect both energy and material consequences of materials production.

Dr Evi Petavratzi (Chair)

Dr. Evi Petavratzi is a Senior Mineral Commodity Geologist at the British Geological Survey BGS), with over 13 years of working experience in industry, academia and the public sector. At BGS, her research is in the field of security of supply and the circular economy, with a focus on decarbonisation and resource management. She has been involved in several multidisciplinary projects in the areas of critical raw materials, material flow analysis and the enhancement of the European knowledge base for raw materials.