Projects & CollaborationsIndustry · Policy · Iceland & EuropeUpdated — 2026

Applied practice & collaboration

Alongside the PhD, I work with industrial parks, companies, and organizations on circular-economy projects. Here are the current collaborations and earlier work.

Currently — CollaborationsStatus

C-01

GreenLab — green industrial energy park, Skive (DK)

Led research on variability in eco-industrial clusters: how unreliable byproduct flows shape investment and exchange. Published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology (2025); now feeding a book chapter on variability in local supply chains.

Active

C-02

Iceland Ocean Cluster — industrial symbiosis & entrepreneurship

Working on a project on industrial symbiosis entrepreneurship in Iceland.

Active

C-03

Icelandic Youth Environmentalist Association

Co-lead for Circularity: commentary on sustainability legislation, events with environmental organizations, and lobbying parliamentary and government stakeholders.

Co-lead

C-04

Battery-recycling research collaboration

Applying my loss-first framework to battery recycling and critical minerals.

In progress

Earlier

2020

Icelandic geothermal industry — industrial symbiosis study

Case study and resource-flows mapping of symbiosis in the geothermal sector, with the Institute for Sustainability Studies, University of Iceland.

2021

1.5°-compatible living in the Nordics

Research with the University of Iceland & Aalto University (Rannís-funded) linking lifestyles, climate views and carbon footprints — including the public footprint calculator at carbonfootprint.hi.is.

2019

Civic & early projects

Student-led energy audit of Chicago Public Schools; the Woodsmoke Awareness Project (eldstaedi.is); Democracy & Human Rights Officer at the National Youth Council of Iceland, representing Iceland at the Council of Europe.

I'm open to research and internship opportunities, collaborations, and projects of all kinds — get in touch.