Enar Leferink

Research group: Sustainable Design
 

Biography

Enar is a PhD student at the Engineering Design Centre investigating the fundamental economic and geographic ground rules necessary for circular economy to be both economically functional and more sustainable than the linear alternative. He holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University, where he specialized in industrial ecology and industrial symbiosis under Professor Marian Chertow. His honors Master's thesis developed methods to understand the fluctuations in quantity and quality of waste that make it difficult to keep using that waste as a resource in a circular system. Prior to Yale, Enar completed his BA in Economics at the University of Chicago. He has taught at both Yale and Chicago. He continues research with Yale on new pathways for industrial symbiosis and with the University of Iceland's Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering on behavioral topics such as the influence of climate concern on carbon footprint and whether a high carbon "budget" contributes to life satisfaction. Enar has received multiple awards and scholarships from various universities, institutes, foundations, and conferences. His PhD is funded by the Cambridge King's College International Scholarship.