Elza Bontempi received her Ph.D. in Materials for Engineering from the University of Brescia and CNRS Grenoble in 2001. Since 2011, she has been a Full Professor in Fundamental Chemistry for Technologies at the University of Brescia (Italy). Her research interests mainly focus on sustainability innovation (e.g., alternatives to waste landfilling), strategic environmental management, and sustainable raw materials recovery. Moreover, she also contributed to developing new strategies to promote the circular economy diffusion by proposing preliminary simplified approaches to LCA devoted to evaluating emerging technologies, mainly dedicated to SMEs and material science researchers.