Dr. ir. Jeroen Guinée (M) has worked at the Institute of Envi­ron­mental Scie­nces (CML), Le­i­den Un­i­ve­rsi­ty since 1987, focusing on the research areas of life cycle assessment (LCA) and substance flow analysis (SFA).

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PhD candidates

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  Thomas Arblaster PhD candidate
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  Nina van Dulmen PhD candidate
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  Hazem Eltohamy PhD candidate
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  Amelie Müller PhD candidate
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  Aaron Paris PhD candidate

News

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  27 October 2023 From fat bikes to paper bags: assessing their total environmental impact is becoming even more important
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  23 March 2023 How sustainable is your coffee cup? Professor Jeroen Guinée finds out
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  29 January 2018 Stans Prize 2017 for Davide De Mauro
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  23 October 2017 Collaboration in the Nano era
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  07 July 2016 EU-FP7 project IDREEM featured on Euronews TV
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  06 July 2016 New Horizon 2020 project on Concrete Sustainability

Former PhD Candidates

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  Natalya Tsoy
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  Elizabeth Migoni Alejandre

Professional experience

Prof. dr. ir. Jeroen Guinée (M) is a Professor of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He obtained his MSc in Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University and successfully defended his PhD in LCA in 1995 at Leiden University. His doctoral research focused on the development of an environmental LCA method and contributed significantly to the first LCA Guide in 1992. In 2002, he served as the project leader and editor for a seminal publication in the field of LCA, the "Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment: Operational Guide to the ISO Standards" which stands as one of the most respected works in this domain. He has (co-)authored over 100 scientific papers and contributed to various books. He imparts his extensive knowledge by teaching a course on LCA to second-year master's students. Additionally, he dedicates his time to supervising master and PhD students as well as Postdocs. Throughout his academic career, he has actively participated in numerous large EU-funded research consortia. In recent years, his research has been devoted to ex-ante LCA and Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD), aimed at supporting the development of more sustainable and innovative products and technologies.

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