Anna Vanderbruggen

Anna Vanderbruggen is a processing engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in France and accomplished the EMerald Erasmus Mundus Masters program, focusing on characterization, processing and modelling in georesources engineering. After working with primary resources, she switched in 2018 to secondary materials with lithium-ion battery recycling. Currently, Anna Vanderbruggen is working for Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology as a researcher. Her work focuses on the joint recovery of lithium metal oxides and graphite from the spent black mass by using froth flotation and to reuse the recovered graphite in new batteries. In addition, she works for ERZLABOR Advanced Solutions GmbH as a process engineer, where she does consulting for recycling companies.