About the Editors

Angèle Reinders

Since 2010 Angèle Reinders (1969) has been a part-time professor of energy-efficient design in the Design for Sustainability (DfS) program of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Since 2002 she has been teaching and conducting research in the Department of Design, Production and Management of the University of Twente with a focus on innovative product design for integrated sustainable energy technologies. Throughout her career, Angèle Reinders has had an abiding interest in sustainable energy. Prior to joining University of Twente she worked at Delft University of Technology, where she investigated low-power energy supplies for portable applications.

In 2001, Angèle Reinders was a scientific advisor in the Asia Alternative Energy Program of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. In due course, she was a guest researcher at Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg (1997), the Ministry of Technology in Jakarta (1998), and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies (ENEA) in Naples (2010).

From 1993 to 2000, she was associated with the Department of Science, Technology and Society of Utrecht University, where she investigated, among other things, the energy consumption of households in the European Union and life cycle aspects of energy systems for rural electrification. She received her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Chemistry at Utrecht University in 1999. Her PhD dissertation covers the analysis and simulation of the field performance of photovoltaic solar energy systems. Angèle Reinders completed a master's degree in experimental physics in 1993 at Utrecht University, specializing in material physics and energy physics. At present she is a co-founding editor of the Journal of Photovoltaics.

Jan Carel Diehl

After finishing his study in industrial design engineering, Dr. Jan Carel Diehl (1969) worked for several years as an ecodesign consultant. In his present position he is assistant professor for the DfS program at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Within the DfS program he manages international projects on sustainable product innovation, especially in emerging markets. The main focus of his research is the knowledge transfer and implementation of sustainable product innovation into an international context. In addition his research has a special interest in cultural differences in product design and in developing products for the so-called base of the pyramid (BoP). Alongside his position at TU Delft, he is a consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and an invited lecturer at several international universities. He is co-author of the UNEP Design for Sustainability (D4S) manual for developing economies (D4S EE).

Han Brezet

Han Brezet (1951) is research and graduate school director of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) at the Delft University of Technology and professor at TU Delft's DfS program. He holds an MSc in electrical engineering from TU Delft, where he graduated in 1977 after performing research on the issue of integration of wind power in the grid. He completed his PhD in energy innovation at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Since 1992 he has been tenured professor in sustainable product design at the IDE Faculty, where he has published more than 150 scientific and conference papers and some standard books in the DFS area after establishing the DfS program. This program was among the first in the world for life cycle–oriented applied ecodesign: the development of useful products with decarbonization, detoxification, and dematerialization as co-drivers. Among its outputs are about 30 doctoral dissertations and a few hundred MSc theses. Today, the program includes concepts and themes like product–services systems, energy-efficient and renewable energy–based products, natural materials–based products, and product design for emerging markets. Since 2012 Han Brezet has held a position as visiting Professor at the Aalborg University (Denmark).