Giulia Pristerà was born in Turin, Italy, in 1995. She currently resides in Trondheim, Norway. She speaks Italian, English and Spanish and is now learning Norwegian.

In 2018, she completed a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. She then pursued a joint master’s degree in residual resources engineering and industrial ecology at the Technical University of Denmark and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which she completed in 2020.

Her interests lie within the field of sustainable resource use and recovery. This is her first research project outside of the university environment. Her research papers focus on waste management and climate change mitigation.