Gergo is a PhD candidate at the Energy & Resources group of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. He studies the prospects for energy-intensive materials, such as steel, cement or plastics, in sustainable futures. What are the trade-offs between a circular and a climate neutral economy? When does recycling substitute virgin material production? What happens to employment when products are designed for repair or disassembly? These are some of the questions guiding his research. 

Initially trained as an electrical engineer at the Eindhoven University of Technology (2020), he obtained a master's degree in Sustainable Development from Utrecht University (2022). Afterwards, he worked at the Circle Economy Foundation, preparing national and sub-national assessment and scenario studies under the Circularity Gap Reporting Initiative. In his academic research, he applies methods of industrial ecology, such as Material Flow Analysis, Input-Output Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment or Decomposition Analysis.

Gergo's research is supervised by Prof. dr. Ernst Worrell and Dr. Li Shen and is part of the EU-funded Horizon project TRANSIENCE.