After finishing her interdisziplinairy Bachelor in environmental science at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Mrs. Hodgkinson specialised in Waste Management and Residual Site Treatment in her Masters at the TU Dresden in Germany. She finished her studies in 2020 with her master thesis on phosphorus recovery in thermal treatment processes and since then has been working at the Institute of Waste Management and Circular Economy where she focused on International Waste Management.