Meet the Jury Gisela Lanza on Circular Factory for the Perpetual Innovative Product

Arenberg Doctoral School is proud to invite you to Meet The Jury!

When internationally renowned experts visit KU Leuven as a member of a PhD Examination Committee, we like to seize this opportunity to give this expert a forum to a large audience. All members of Science, Engineering & Technology are most welcome to the Meet The Jury Lectures.

Prof. Gisela Lanza (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) will give a lecture on “Circular Factory for the Perpetual Innovative Product”.

New, innovative economic systems are needed to decouple resource consumption from prosperity. The traditional linear “take-make-use-dispose” approach is not sustainable in the long term, and political framework conditions are also making sustainable and circular production patterns increasingly unavoidable. In our Collaborative Research Centre 1574 “Circular Factory”, we are pursuing the goal of enabling integrated production that combines linear and circular processes on an industrial scale. The aim is to systematically transfer used products into current product generations – a key step towards the vision of the “perpetual innovative product”. In order to implement this transformation, far-reaching interdisciplinary issues need to be resolved, including in the areas of production technology, product development, materials technology, ergonomics, robotics, IT and knowledge modelling. The seminar will provide insights into these challenges and show ways in which the production of the future can be designed to be sustainable and competitive.

Following the lecture, there will be opportunity for young researchers to interact with her.

• Venue: Room: KAST 01.07, Building: Kasteelpark Arenberg 1, 3001 Heverlee
• Date: 12 May 2026 – 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
• Prof. Gisela Lanza is visiting KU Leuven on the occasion of the PhD defence of Yifan Wu