LUISA BERRIDY

Luisa Berridy Segade is a junior researcher at Rey Juan Carlos University, , currently holding a research contract within the framework of the SMARTER project, funded by the Regional Government of Madrid and focused on monitoring and assessing the sustainability of raw materials for a clean energy transition. She graduated in Environmental Engineering from URJC, including an Erasmus stay at Universidade do Porto, and later obtained an MSc in Soil and Groundwater Contamination at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Her main research line lies at the intersection of energy transitions and social-environmental sustainability, with a particular focus on applying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Social LCA (S-LCA) in a diverse set of case studies such as, power systems, prospective electricity production scenarios or critical raw material (CRM) value chains.

She has contributed to the ASSISTANCE project, which analyses the evolution of the Spanish electricity production mix from a social equity perspective, and the SMARTER project, focused on monitoring the sustainability of raw materials for the energy transition. As part of these projects, she has modelled long-term electricity scenarios with LEAP, quantified social impacts using the PSILCA database, and developed frameworks for CRM dependency reduction in solar PV and wind power.

Luisa's scientific production, although it is in an initial phase, already includes a manuscript under review and another already published in Sustainable Production and Consumption journal (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.06.030), as well as accepted contributions to important conferences such as the Life Cycle Management Conference (LCM) in 2023 (Lille) and 2025 (Palermo)

Her technical expertise encompasses LCA tools (SimaPro, OpenLCA) and databases (ecoinvent, PSILCA), energy system modelling (LEAP), GIS and remote sensing (ArcGIS Pro, Sentinel-2 indices), and statistical analysis (R).

Alongside her research, Luisa has been involved in seminars and training events, including the Spring School SH2E & EGHOST on sustainability assessment and ecodesign of energy systems, and actively participates in the Spanish LCA Network (esLCA). In addition, funding has been granted to organize an event for educational purposes at the university itself. Her motivation is to contribute to advancing science-based methods that integrate environmental, social, and economic dimensions for decision-making in energy and raw materials policy, making her a strong candidate for a doctoral programme in the sustainability of product and processes.