Lara-Marie is a PhD candidate at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. With her research on accelerating the transition to a Dutch circular textile economy, she is part of the Innovation Studies group and the Energy and Resources group of the institute. Her research focuses on drivers and barriers to making the Dutch textile sector more circular and on the mental models of different stakeholder groups along the textile value chain. 

She has a background in Biology from Hamburg University and a master's degree in Sustainable Development with focus on environmental change and ecosystems from Utrecht University.