Nina Boorsma

Nina Boorsma is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Circular Manufacturing and Materials research group at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. She received her master’s degree in industrial design engineering in 2016 and her PhD in 2022, both from Delft University of Technology. The topic of her master’s thesis was design for remanufacturing of medical equipment, completed at Philips, and her dissertation focused on strategic design for remanufacturing.

Her professional career began at Spark Design & Innovation, a product design agency based in Rotterdam, where she worked as Marketing and Communications Manager. She continued her professional journey at Innoboost, a sustainable strategy consultancy in Amsterdam, while also holding a research position at TU Delft. There, she contributed to 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 this, Nina worked on the development of circular design methodologies within the H2020 EU project ‘Resource Efficient Circular Product Service Systems (ReCiPSS)’. In this project, she collaborated with 13 partners from 8 countries to establish two large-scale demonstrators of circular manufacturing systems for Gorenje Gospodinjski Aparati D.D. and Robert Bosch GmbH. One of the outcomes was the development of the Circular Product Readiness method.

She currently works as an Innovation Lead at the Port of Rotterdam Authority alongside her academic role, focusing on topics such as circular production, critical raw materials, autonomous shipping, H3 innovations, vessel traffic services, and more.