Yannick is a PhD student and research fellow. He earned his MSc in Metropolitan, Analysis, Design and Engineering from TU Delft and Wageningen University & Research and holds a BSc in Agri- and Horticulture. He worked at universities of applied sciences in research projects involving bio-based technologies and modeling the environmental impact of organic waste management. His academic achievements and professional experience come together in his PhD research: recirculating urban food waste into agriculture. Besides his PhD work, Yannick is involved in the Horizon project BIN2BEAN and in the Project Proefopstelling met Voedselrestenvermalers (Kitchen Sink Grinder Lab). Both projects focus on developing new valorization strategies for urban food waste.
Within the BIN2BEAN project, Yannick is the manager of the Living Lab in Amsterdam. In the Living Lab, stakeholders from several points along the soil improvers production chain are included to get a full understanding of the key factors and relationships between waste processing companies, farmers, different levels of government and society in general.
Alongside his research, Yannick is involved in educational activities in both the MSc MADE program at the AMS Institute and in environmental impact analysis related courses at Wageningen University.
“I’ve got an intrinsic drive to understand why organic waste management strategies came to exist, how they perform within the context of sustainability and how they can be transformed into organic waste valorization strategies”