Ankita Singhvi

EPFL ENAC IIE HERUS
GR C1 482 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
1015 Lausanne

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Ankita Singhvi is a researcher in circular economy for cities and currently a PhD candidate at EPFL.

Ankita received her BSc degree in Architecture from the Technical University Delft in 2017. She graduated with a design proposal for the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam that examined the ageing of materials in the built environment. Her interest in climate adaptation led her to pursue a MSc in Industrial Ecology from Leiden University and TU Delft. She graduated in 2020 with honours, with a thesis on resilience in grey and nature-based infrastructures.
She has worked with the the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Circle Economy and LDE Centre for Sustainability: bridging science with practise. She coordinated the Circular Industries Hub, where she supported companies in their transition towards the principles of a circular economy. She collaborated on two research projects: «Securing Critical Materials for Critical Sectors: Policy options for the Netherlands and the European Union» (2021) and «Building resilience in high-tech supply chains: Lessons from the Dutch High Tech sector» (2021).

Ankita continues her work in circular resource management at HERUS, EPFL. Her research focuses on the role of circular economy in urban and territorial transitions towards sustainability. She is supervised by Prof. Claudia. R. Binder and Dr. Aristide Athanassiadis.

Education

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2018 – 2020 Leiden University / TU Delft

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2016 – 2016 Burnley, University of Melbourne

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2013 – 2017 Technical University Delft

Awards

Doc.mobility grant, Visiting researcher UCL Circular Cities Hub

EPFL

2024

Campus Living Labs grant

Habitat Research Centre, EPFL

2022

Selected publications

Mapping Operational and Embodied Emissions in Relation to Household and Ownership Profiles with Bottom-up Building Stock Analysis: The Case of Vaud, Switzerland

A Singhvi, M Sirenko, A Athanassiadis, CR Binder
Published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling in 2025

Configurations for circularity? A scoping review of urban planning approaches in the circular economy literature

A Singhvi, A Athanassiadis, CR Binder
Published in Urban Research & Practice in 2025

Building resilience in high-tech supply chains

GA Aguilar-Hernandez, A Singhvi, C Böcher, X Zhong
Published in Nature Electronics in 2023

The grey-green spectrum: A review of coastal protection interventions

A Singhvi, AP Luijendijk, APE van Oudenhoven
Published in Journal of Environmental Management in 2022