Dr Iacovidou is an expert in lifecycle sustainability assessment of waste and resource management based on a systems approach. She is currently carrying out various strands of research on the food, plastics and small electronics value chains, investigating the sustainability potential of proposed cross-value chain interventions. She has been leading a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary and industrial projects on the identification, mapping, analysis and assessment of material, component and product flows, processes, stakeholders’ structures and values (i.e., environmental, economic, social, technical) to inform policy development and champion resource efficiency and circularity. She is a chemist with expertise in environmental engineering and environmental management and policy research following studies at the University of Crete and Imperial College London.