Thematic Areas
Current Research Projects
- BAMBOO Biodiversity and trade: mitigating the impacts of non-food biomass
- Environmental assessment of Land-use related Biodiversity loss
- Environmental assessment of Water Use
- Operationalising the Planetary Boundaries framework to inform decision making for countries, cities and businesses
- Organic Agriculture: modelling nutrients and assessing land impact
- SUSTAIN Assess and Integrate Nature
- Sustainability assessment of metals, food, and energy supply chains
- SWISSCHAINS – Swiss Sustainable Supply Chain Lab
Finished Research Projects
- Compensating the biodiversity impacts of land use: Toward ecologically equal exchange in the North-South context
- Development of environmentally extended water use and water quality accounts and integration into global environmental economic accounts
- Global and Spatially Differentiated Methodology for the Assessment of Agricultural Water Use Impacts on Biodiversity
- Life Cycle Human Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Application on Agricultural Products in Colombia
- Life Cycle Management of wood in Switzerland: methods, tools, and environmental decision support
- Quantification and Environmental Assessment of Food Losses from Agriculture to Consumption in Switzerland and Potential for Reduction
- Sustainable Production and Consumption of Foods
- Towards Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
- Water Resources in Bio-Fuels Production
Current Research Projects
- Clean Cycle: Optimizing Resource Efficiency while Preventing Pollutant Exposure through Plastics Recycling
- NCCR Catalysis -Life Cycle Assessment of Chemicals
- Petrochemicals and climate
Finished Research Projects
- Investigating the Chemistry, Properties, Environmental Fate and Transport, Lifecycle, and Risk Management Options of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Core Samples: Key Issues and Lessons Learned
- The Use of Oxo-Degradable Plastics in Switzerland
- Understanding and Advancing the International Chemicals and Waste Governance
Current Research Projects
- Circular Future Cities
- Environmental Assessment of Water Use
- Global power production: Regionalized Emissions and Impact Assessment
- Petrochemicals and climate
- SHEF Shrinking Housing's Environmental Footprint
- Sustainability assessment of metals, food, and energy supply chains
- TACLE Towards A sustainable CircuLar Economy
- The Blue City Project
Finished Research Projects
- Development of environmentally extended water use and water quality accounts and integration into global environmental economic accounts
- Implications of emerging energy technologies on supply and demand of scarce metals (PhD thesis)
- Life Cycle Assessment of Household Consumption
- LCA Tools for Decision Support in and Waste Management
- Life Cycle Management of wood in Switzerland: methods, tools, and environmental decision support
- Sustainable Waste and Resource Management to Support the Energy Turnaround (wastEturn)
- Technology Upscaling and Learning
Current Research Projects
- BAMBOO Biodiversity and trade: mitigating the impacts of non-food biomass
- Minimizing Energy Input, Exergy Loss and Environmental Impacts of Greenhouse Systems in Iran and Switzerland by Exploiting Industrial Symbiosis Opportunities
- SUSTAIN Assess and Integrate Nature
- Sustainability assessment of future metals, food, and energy supply chains
- SWISSCHAINS – Swiss Sustainable Supply Chain Lab
Finished Research Projects
- Environmental Impacts of Personalized Nutrition
- Life Cycle Human Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Application on Agricultural Products in Colombia
- Quantification and Environmental Assessment of Food Losses from Agriculture to Consumption in Switzerland and Potential for Reduction
- Sustainable Production and Consumption of Foods
- Towards Sustainable Supply of Household Consumption: Demand Modeling and Environmental Assessment (PhD thesis)
Current Research Projects
- OASES Open Assessment of Swiss Economy and Society
- Operationalising the Planetary Boundaries framework to inform decision making for countries, cities and businesses
- SHEF Shrinking Housing's Environmental Footprint
Finished Research Projects
- Life Cycle Assessment of Household Consumption
- Quantification and Environmental Assessment of Food Losses from Agriculture to Consumption in Switzerland and Potential for Reduction
- Sustainable Production and Consumption of Foods
- Towards Sustainable Supply of Household Consumption: Demand Modeling and Environmental Assessment (PhD thesis)
Current Research Projects
- Circular Future Cities
- Clean Cycle: Optimizing Resource Efficiency while Preventing Pollutant Exposure through Plastics Recycling
- SULTAN Remediation and reprocessing of sulfidic mining waste sites
- Sustainability assessment of metals, food, and energy supply chains
- TACLE Towards A sustainable CircuLar Economy
- The Blue City Project
- Urban mining for low-noise urban roads
Finished Research Projects
- Influence of Input-scrap Quality on the Environmental Impact of Secondary Steel Production
- LCA Tools for Decision Support in and Waste Management
- Life Cycle Based Optimization of Physical Exchanges in Industrial Networks
- Modeling Future Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration in Europe
- Sustainable Waste and Resource Management to Support the Energy Turnaround (wastEturn)