Conny Bakker

Prof. Conny Bakker holds a professorship in Design for Sustainability and Circular Economy at TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Her research focuses on developing design methodologies for circular product-service systems, emphasizing strategies like product lifetime extension, remanufacturing, and recycling. She explores business model innovations enabling these circular strategies. Bakker teaches courses such as Sustainable Design and Strategic & Sustainable Design, contributing to both academic and applied sustainability education.

Her work has been recognized with awards including the 2022 Open Education Award for promoting open educational resources. Research collaborations involve interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability challenges, with recent studies addressing bio-based materials' environmental impact and circular economy implementation in automotive industries. Bakker maintains active engagement in academic publishing and graduate education, occupying office 32.B-3-390 at TU Delft.