Winifred Ijomah is Professor in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing at the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM), at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. She is Founder and Director of The Scottish Institute for Remanufacturing (www.scot-reman.ac.uk), a pan-Scotland expertise hub established to spearhead the Circular Economy in Scotland using product recovery.
She has elements of her work incorporated in British Standards Institute (e.g. BS 8887-220:2010 – Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly) and is member of National and International committees established to assist industry to meet international environmental legislation. She is founder of and until April 2021 Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Journal of Remanufacturing (springer.com/journal/13243), the first academic journal in the remanufacturing field.
She established and heads the University of Strathclyde Sustainability and Remanufacturing Research Group, specialising in holistic, interdisciplinary, practitioner-based research aimed at enabling sustainable circular and Net-zero manufacturing. She initiated and chaired the first International Conference on Remanufacturing (remanufacturing-conference.com); the first international academic conference for remanufacturing, now a biennial event running in conjunction with Rematec, the world’s leading remanufacturing exhibition and trade event.
Her work focuses on product end-of-life, particularly remanufacturing, and spans both product and process design with a view to enhancing the potential for a circular economy. Professor Ijomah is a keen STEM and Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador.
She is Remanufacture Advisor / Visiting Professor in Remanufacturing to the University of Ibadan, one of Nigeria’s oldest and top universities (over 41,000 students), and Senior Special Advisor on Remanufacture to the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Oluyola branch (more than 5,000 members), to activate remanufacture in Nigeria. She is also currently International Visiting Professor at University West, Sweden.
Winifred holds a PhD in Remanufacturing, an MSc in Advanced Manufacturing Management and a BEng in Production Engineering, with over 20 years of research experience in remanufacturing, and has graduated more than 18 PhD candidates as principal supervisor in the discipline.
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