Kristine Sperlich holds a degree in Environmental Engineering and has worked at the German Environment Agency (UBA) since 2007 as scientific and policy officer. She is primarily responsible for technical and scientific issues relating to the collection and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), as well as for reporting to the European Commission. She also works on cross-cutting issues relating to the circular economy. From 2017 to 2020, she was a research assistant at the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) for Council member Prof. Rotter and also worked in research (H2020 project ORAMA) and teaching at Prof. Rotter’s chair. Since 2024, she has been leading the UBA’s internal research project ‘Circular Economy for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (CircEEE)’.