PhD in Engineering Science

KU Leuven Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) research group and the KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals (SIM2) in Leuven (Re- and Demanufacturing Lab in Heverlee) are developing digital infrastructure within the REINFUSE project to support reuse, repair, repurposing, remanufacturing, and recycling./nREINFUSE (launch 2026) aims to build AI-augmented tools and a product-information backbone for advanced product (re-)identification, AI-driven product research and data acquisition, product-data enrichment, valuation, and lifecycle product traceability, targeting TRL 5 demonstration and industrial validation with Flemish companies.