Ehmen Khalid holds a master’s degree in Advanced Materials: Innovative Recycling, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (EMJM) and European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)-labelled programme, completed at NOVA University Lisbon and the University of Liège. Her specialization focused on metallurgy and metals recycling, with a particular emphasis on applying life cycle assessment (LCA) to real-world industrial products and processes.

She conducted her master’s thesis as part of the ECWALI project (Circular Economy in Wallonia: Aluminum Alloys and Stainless Steels) at the University of Liège in collaboration with Aperam, where she carried out a cradle-to-gate LCA of Aperam’s stainless steel production using primary industrial data, assessing environmental impacts and identifying key hotspots and improvement opportunities.

She is currently part of the Sustainability team at GreenCoLab, contributing to LCA and sustainability assessment activities within the bioeconomy