Winifred Ijomah

 Winifred Ijomah is Professor in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing at the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is Founder and Director of The Scottish Institute for Remanufacturing (http://www.scot-reman.ac.uk/), a pan-Scotland expertise hub established to spearhead the Circular Economy in Scotland using product recovery. She has elements of her work  incorporated in British Standards Institute, (e.g. BS 8887-220:2010- Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly) and is member of National and International committees established to  assist industry to meet international environmental legislation. She is founder of and untill April 2021 Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Journal of Remanufacturing (https://www.springer.com/journal/13243), the first academic journal in the remanufacturing field. She established  and heads the University of Strathclyde Sustainability and Remanufacturing Research Group, specialising in holistic, interdisciplinary, practitioner-based research aimed at enabling circular and Netzero manufacturing. She initiated and chaired the first International Conference on Remanufacturing (http://www.remanufacturing-conference.com/); the first international academic conference for remanufacturing; and now a biennial event running in conjunction with Rematec, the world's leading remanufacturing exhibition. Her work  focuses on product end-of-life, particularly remanufacturing and spans both product and process design with a view to advancing the circular economy. Profressor Ijomah has PhD in remanufacturing, has graduated over 18  PhD candidates in remanufacturing and is a keen STEM Ambassador.