Francesca Alberti

As a former architect and circular economy enthusiast, Francesca works at AMS Institute as project manager research and innovation in the Circularity for Urban Regions team.

Born in Italy and raised in Europe, after a university dissertation on sustainable architecture, circular materials, and renewable energies, she spent the last 5 years traveling the world to tackle the plastic pollution issue; her projects took her to Southeast Asia where she developed technologies to retrieve plastic pollution from waterways, and collaborated with governments on local recycling, single-use plastic prevention, upcycling possibilities and community empowerment.

While working on the circular economy for plastic, she learned the complexity of the path to a more sustainable future and society and decided to join AMS Institute to broaden her approach. Francesca finds AMS Institute an inspiring environment to be part of and to learn from: she is grateful and committed to support Amsterdam’s ambitious circularity goal and she looks forward to replicating the innovations developed and tested in the Venice of the North to other cities worldwide.

At AMS Institute, she can combine her passion for cities and architecture, with her drive of solving urban challenges. She is now responsible for Solving the Urban Plastic Soup, Circular Solar panels for the doughnut economy and the redesign of value chains of solid urban waste (packaging, plastics, construction and demolition waste, textiles and WEEE) leading to the production of circular products.