Nina Boorsma is a PostDoc Researcher in the Circular Manufacturing and Materials research group at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She received her Masters in Industrial Design Engineering in 2016 and her PhD in 2022, both at Delft University of Technology. The topic of hew masters’ graduation thesis was Design for Remanufacturing of medical equipment which was completed at Philips and that of her dissertation was Strategic Design for Remanufacturing.

Her professional career started at Spark design & innovation, a product design agency based in Rotterdam, where she worked as a Marketing and Communications Manager. She continued her professional journey at Innoboost, a sustainable strategy consultancy in Amsterdam, combined with a research position at TU Delft in which she worked on two EU projects: ‘Key success factors for Re-Use Networks’ (RUN) and ‘Bridging the raw materials knowledge gap for reuse and remanufacturing professionals’ (ReUK).

She completed her PhD on the topic of early-stage design for remanufacturing. As part of her PhD, Nina worked on the development of circular design methodologies for H2020 EU project ‘Recourse Efficient Circular Product Service Systems’ (ReCiPSS). In this project, she collaborated with 13 partners from 8 different countries to set up two large-scale demonstrators of circular manufacturing systems for the companies Gorenje Gospodinjski Aparati D.D. and Robert Bosch GmbH. One of the results was the development of the Circular Product Readiness method.

Currently, she works as an Innovation Lead at the Port of Rotterdam Authority besides her job in academia, dealing with topics like circular production, critical raw materials, autonomous shipping, H3 innovations, vessel traffic services and more.

research interest

• Remanufacturing
• Circular design
• Design Thinking
• H3 Innovations
• Proof of concept and pilots