Alessio Campitelli studied Environmental Engineering (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From 2014 until 2023, he worked in different positions at the Chair of Material Flow Management and Resource Economy at the IWAR Institute. His research focuses on waste management systems and circular economy in countries of the Global South, their assessment and the use of biotechnologies in the context of the bioeconomy. He is also involved in teaching and research activities in countries such as Morocco and the Ivory Coast. He has expertise in the field of life cycle assessment (LCA) and resource efficiency assessment of industrial and digital processes. From October 2020 until December 2023, he was group leader of the working group "Circular Economy and Secondary Raw Materials". In June 2022, he successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled: "Promoting Circular Economy in Cities of the Global South through Assessment of Waste Management Systems: The Case of Marrakech (Morocco)". Since February 2023, he is working as an external consultant at Merck, working on topics related to LCA and circular economy. From January 2024 he is also working as Post Doc researcher at the Chair of Environmental Analytics and Pollutants.