Justin holds an MSc and BSc in environmental engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University. His academic training specialized in ecological systems design (including mass flow and life cycle analysis), air quality control, and waste management, including a focus on the transport of chemicals within international food trade. Before joining the Food Packaging Forum, he worked as a research scientist and project manager at ETH Zurich focusing on modeling the emissions and fate of fluorinated substances in the environment, mapping the life cycles of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and supporting projects focused on strengthening international science-policy communication. He is a co-author and reviewer of multiple reports for the United Nations Environment Programme on chemicals and waste, has supported scientific discussions within the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and was the coordinating co-author of the textbook “Chemical Products and Processes” that teaches the environmentally oriented design of chemical products and processes.

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