Benjamin Sprecher is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering with main research interests in sustainable design, quantification of environmental impacts, and industrial ecology. His current work explores how to quantification of environmental impacts can inform sustainable design, and how decisions at the product design level relate to system level concepts such as circular economy. His PhD and postdoc were forcussed on critical raw materials and supply chain resilience, and he remains working on these topics as well.

Before becoming an assistant professor, he was an assistant professor at the Leiden University Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) where he also did his PhD, and in between a postdoc at the Yale University Center for Industrial Ecology.