Laura Cutaia is a Senior Researcher at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). She holds a degree in Environmental Engineering (1996) and a PhD in Raw Material Engineering (2002). Her research focuses on Industrial Ecology, Industrial Symbiosis, Circular Economy, Resource Efficiency, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Thinking (LCT), environmental certification schemes, and circular and sustainable industrial areas. She is an active expert on following platforms: the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP), the Italian Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ICESP), and the Symbiosis Users Network (SUN). She also serves as President of UNI/CT 057 on Circular Economy, and as Head of the Italian Delegation at ISO/TC 323 (Circular Economy) and CEN/TC 473 (Circular Economy).