Wander conducts research as part of his doctorate into the connections between education, packaging, packaging design, sustainability and circularity. Degree programme: Industrial Design Engineering (IPO).

Albert is a passionate lecturer and researcher. He contributes to enabling students to make more sustainable decisions in economic education and with businesses in general. He contributes to entrepreneurial education by stimulating enterprising students to not only figure out their commercial and financial future but also to get them to reflect on the question ‘What does the success of my business actually mean for our planet?’. ‘What does my business contribute to the 17 goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations?’ Therefore, success is not just about making money. Albert is also affiliated with the LDE Centre for Frugal Innovation in The Hague. Frugal means ‘doing more with less’. As a researcher, he studies the transition from existing business models towards a more sustainable model

Rachel is a lecturer and researcher in the area of Integrated Facility Management and Procurement Management and has been a lecturer at THUAS in 2014. Rachel studies the relationship between sustainability and general business processes such as cleaning and waste streams. From 2020, she will be studying how to achieve waste reduction together with facilities companies at the Custodial Institutions Agency and FM Haaglanden, and students from The Hague University of Applied Sciences. After all, what you do not purchase cannot turn into waste.

Frans is a lecturer in the Marketing degree programme and is motivated by the following question: How do companies move from linear to circular? Frans coordinates the Circular Business minor where students conduct research with companies into specific action perspectives for circular business operations.

Laura is Senior Lecturer at Industrial Design Engineering within the TIS faculty and PhD researcher at Delft University of Technology. Role in Urban Metabolism is Biomimicry Education expert and researcher. She researches the influence of analogies between nature and design on design students concerning ethics, emulation and reconnection to Nature while striving to address Sustainable Development Goals.