Gian Andrea Blengini

Full Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Turin, Italy.

Gian Andrea Blengini received a Msc in Mining Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy (1994) and a PhD in Earth resources from TU Lisbon, Portugal (2006). Presently a Full Professor at the University of Turin (Earth Sciences) where he leads the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research group and lectures on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Resources & Environmental Sustainability at undergraduate, master and postgraduate level.

He has been a principal investigator at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in the Land Resources Unit from October 2013 to October 2021, with a role of team coordinator in projects and activities: (1) in support of EC raw materials policies, with focus on critical raw materials and monitoring of Circular Economy, and (2) targeted to the EU Raw Materials Knowledge Base, including Life Cycle Inventory data availability, coherence and quality.