Serenella Sala
European Commission - Joint Research Centre

Biography
Serenella has been the Head of Unit of the Land Resources and Supply Chain Assessments Unit within the Sustainable Resource Directorate at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) since 2010.
Between 2001 and 2010, Serenella was the coordinator of the Research Unit on Sustainable Development (GRISS) at the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Milano Bicocca, where she worked as a scientific project leader for several environmental projects supporting sustainability assessment in both the private and public sector. She actively promoted public and private partnerships on eco-innovation and resource efficiency and contributed to the harmonisation of methods and models for life cycle impact assessment at the international level.
An environmental scientist by background, with a PhD in applied ecology, her research activities support European policies and focus on assessing sustainability by applying methodologies and models for sustainable development, integrated environmental assessment, life cycle assessment, and risk assessment. The focus is on the eco-innovation of processes and products as well as resource efficiency.
RSC affiliations
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