Professor of Sustainable and Circular Systems

Regina Frei leads the Product Returns Research Group: Product Returns Research Group.

She is passionate about sustainable value chains and the Circular Economy, and her research interests include reverse supply chains, product returns in retail, recycling, remanufacturing, and the Circular Economy.

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Regina has been awarded 23 research grants worth a total of £1.3k, and she has published over 48 peer-reviewed papers, whereof 22 journal articles.

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Regina was an Associate Professor of Digital Economy at Surrey Business School from April 2023 to June 2024, and​ an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Southampton Business School from September 2019 to March 2023. From 2013 to 2019, she was a Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain Management at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Previously, she was a Postdoc at Cranfield University and Imperial College London. She holds a PhD in Distributed Robotics from Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal, and an MSc in Micro-Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She wrote her MSc Thesis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and did internships with the International Watch Company (IWC) and Schindler Lifts, both in Switzerland.​