Roman Maletz graduated in Waste Management Engineering and Circular Economy and has professional experience in the waste management and energy sectors. He is a research associate at Technische Universität Dresden, where he conducts research on circular economy and sustainable resource management. He earned his PhD with a focus on plastics recycling and measures to increase the circularity of plastics. His research interests include the optimisation of material flows and waste treatment technologies, environmental and impact assessment of waste management systems, plastics recycling, resource efficiency, and waste management in emerging economies. His work focuses particularly on developing and evaluating strategies for increasing resource recovery and advancing the transition towards a circular economy. Besides his scientific work, he is involved in the recycling company HolyPoly GmbH.