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## **About the Editors**

#### **Anna Mazzi**

Anna Mazzi is an Associate Professor of Environment Health & Safety Management Systems at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. She is the head of the research group SAM.lab, dedicated to supporting organizations in sustainability assessment and management. She is a member of the Italian Network of Life Cycle Assessment and coordinates one of its working groups. During her research activity at University of Padova, she has collaborated in several European research projects, in the funding lines LIFE Environment, Interreg, Intelligent Energy Europe, EQUAL and CIP Innovation. She has also collaborated in numerous research projects at national and regional levels on the implementation of environmental assessment and management tools and standards at industrial and territorial levels. Her current research activity, documented by about 170 publications (h-index: 22), is focused on environmental impact evaluation and minimization, through life cycle sustainability assessments, to support process optimization and product innovation in reuse and recycling.

#### **Jingzheng Ren**

Dr. Jingzheng Ren is currently an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor of Energy System Engineering at University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and an Associated Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Security & Development Policy (Sweden). He serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of *Environment, Development and Sustainability* (Springer) and Editor of *Sustainable Production and Consumption* (Elsevier), and was previously an Associate Editor of *Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy* (AIP), Associate Editor of *Renewable Energy & Sustainable Development*, and a Guest Editor of several leading SCI indexed international journals with impact factors. He has more than 200 publications to his name, including 170 journal papers, 17 authored/edited books, and more than 50 book chapters. Eleven of his papers have been selected as the ESI top 1% highly cited papers and four have been highlighted as Key Scientific Articles contributing to excellence in energy research. One paper was recognized as one of the three top papers published in Sustainable Production and Consumption in 2018 and won the Best Paper Award (with a second award for contributions to a leading journal on sustainability).
