SPEAKER 1: Sofía Garin

Short Bio: Sofía Garín, Sustainable Design Engineer. She has an international profile, starting her studies in Zaragoza, Spain, in industrial design and product development engineering, and later on specializing in Sustainability at Jonköping University, Sweden and in Aalborg University, Denmark. She has been now been working for 5 years on international design projects: product, service and strategy. Her main working areas are Circular Economy, Design Thinking and Collaborative Design. She is currently a project manager at inèdit, an eco-innovation studio based in Barcelona where she works together with companies assessing towards circular business models including packaging eco-design, strategic design for new business models and user experience to improve sustainability.  

Contact Info:
Sofía Garín
Project manager
Ecodesign and circular business
T. (+34) 93 268 34 76 - Ext: 114
www.ineditinnova.com 

SPEAKER 1: Cheila Almeida

Short Bio: Cheila Almeida is a researcher at IPMA dedicated to seafood sustainability, from a supply chain perspective, aiming to make both production and consumption of seafood more sustainable. She is a marine biologist and holds a PhD in Sea Sciences from Universidade de Lisboa on “Seafood consumption in Portugal: Patterns, drivers and sustainability”. She has experience in performing seafood LCA studies and insight knowledge on Portuguese seafood sector but also on project management and communication. Currently she works in Neptunus European project (https://neptunus-project.eu/), where she is responsible to introduce green economy strategies in the seafood sector based on LCA to minimize environmental impacts.

Contact Info:
Cheila Almeida, Researcher
IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e Atmosfera, I.P.
DivAV - Aquaculture, Valorization and Bioprospective Division Mobile: +351 914623888 Phone: +351 213027000
Twitter: @chealm
http://www.ipma.pt/en/
http://neptunus-project.eu/