Adamantia Lazou is an Academic Researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research area is on process metallurgy, and her current activities relate mainly to high-temperature processes. Her research interests focus on understanding the fundamental phenomena behind the processes she is working with such as recycling and valorizing by-products and waste streams. Her vision is on coupling sustainable principles in the metallurgical approaches for resources efficiency and closing the materials loop. She holds an M.Sc. degree in Metallurgical processes from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.