Diana Carpio Vallejo

• Project coordination, communication and dissemination
• Scientific writing
• Environmental Sustainability and Circularity
• Sustainable Management of Water Resources
• CBE-JU and Horizon proposal development
• Risk assessment

Estefania Carpio (M.Sc.) is the Deputy Director of the “Environmental Management and Circular Economy (EM&CE)” division within the Research and Transfer Center “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” (FTZ-NK) at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. With over 5 years of experience, she is an environmental researcher and project manager with expertise in sustainability, circular economy, environmental and risk assessment, scientific writing and project proposals development and international projects coordination. Estefania is actively involved in the coordination and communication of several EU-funded projects, including BALTIPLAST (Interreg), CheMatSustain (Horizon Europe), and BioRadar (CBE-JU), where she leads various tasks related to sustainability assessment and dissemination. Her role encompasses project coordination, strategic planning, consortium management, reporting, communication, and dissemination.

She is deeply committed to advancing environmental sustainability initiatives, with a strong focus on plastic pollution mitigation, bio-based solutions, and innovative strategies to promote circularity and sustainability. 

Lyshtva, P., Torkelis, A., Kobets, Y., Carpio-Vallejo, E., Dobri, A., Barbir, J., Voronova, V., Denafas, G., & Kliucininkas, L. (2025). Characterization of the municipal plastic and multilayer packaging waste in three cities of the Baltic States. Sustainability, 17(3), 986. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17030986

Düker, U., Nogueira, R., Carpio-Vallejo, E., Joost, I., Hüppe, K., Suchenwirth, R., Saathoff, Y., & Wallner, M. (2024). Sewer system sampling for wastewater-based disease surveillance: is the work worth it? Journal of Water and Health, 22(11), 2218–2232. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2024.301

Carpio-Vallejo, E., Düker, U., Waldowski, J., & Nogueira, R. (2024). Contribution of rooftop rainwater harvesting to climate adaptation in the city of Hannover: Water quality and health issues of rainwater storage in cisterns and ponds. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 256, 114320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114320

Carpio-Vallejo, E., Düker, U., Meyer, F., Berding, U., & Nogueira, R. (2023). Microbiological water quality and derived health risks from exposure to ornamental water fountains in the city of Hannover. Risk Analysis, 44(1), 24–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14145