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Francesca Verones
Francesca Verones (born 30 May 1984 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Italian environmental engineer and associate professor at the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU. Her areas of specialisation include Life Cycle Analysis, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, and Biodiversity assessments.

Career
Verones completed her BSc in Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich in 2006. She completed her MSc in Environmental Engineering in 2009, and her Dr.Sc in Environmental Engineering in 2013, both also at ETH Zurich. Following her PhD Verones worked as a Postdoctoral fellow, first in the Institute of Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich, and then at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

In 2013, Verones was awarded the Otto Jaag Gewässerschutzpreis (Otto Jaag water protection prize) for outstanding dissertation in the field of water protection/hydrology from ETH Zürich. In 2014, Verones was appointed as associate professor at the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU.

Verones has been a leader of the task force on framework and cross-cutting issues of the global guidance project of the life cycle initiative of UNEP-SETAC. She has, since 2016, been editor for a new open access journal Cogent Environmental Science. She is a member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.