Sterre ter Haar
PhD candidate
- Name
- S.F. ter Haar MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- s.f.ter.haar@cml.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0003-1355-8978
Sterre is a PhD researcher and lecturer at the Industrial Ecology department of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML).
Professional experience
Sterre is a PhD researcher and lecturer at the Industrial Ecology department of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML). Her work on quantifying the effect of climate change on nutrient security and public health is partially funded by the Frontiers Planet Prize. She previously conducted research here at CML (multi-criteria decision analysis in life cycle assessment; environmentally extended input-output analysis) as well as at Oxford University’s Oxford Martin School (rapid food transitions), University Centre of Svalbard (energy balance; mercury deposition), Technical University of Delft (modelling non-Newtonian fluids), and University of Dayton (nanofabrication of microbe-fueled microelectromechanical systems).
A graduate of the TU Delft-Leiden University Industrial Ecology program, her MSc thesis ‘The Direct Effect of CO2 Rise on the Plant Ionome: Implications For Exacerbating Global Malnutrition’ won the 2025 Stans Award for best student thesis as well as the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize for best WO thesis. This work was expanded in the Horizon 2020 project EU 1.5 ° Lifestyles. Before this, Sterre received a BSc in Applied Earth Sciences from the Technical University of Delft (’17), and four ASc from Sinclair College (’13) in Mathematics, Engineering, Chemistry, and Biology.
Sterre is currently the lecturer for the MSc course ‘Sustainability Analysis in Python’. Previously, she was the teaching assistant for Methods: Analysing Physical Processes, Renewable Energy Systems, System Earth, and Introduction to Petroleum Engineering, and tutored for the Sinclair College Mathematics and Chemistry department.
Research topic
Sterre’s research aims to quantify the effects of environmental change on food and nutrient security in the context of global trade and its public health implications for different consumer groups.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Science
- Institute of Environmental Sciences
- CML/Industrial ecology
- Haar S.F. ter, Bodegom P.M. van & Scherer L.A. (2025), CO2 rise directly impairs crop nutritional quality, Global Change Biology 31(11): e70568.
- Castillo Rodrigo O.S., Haar S.F. ter, Ponners C.G., Bos M. & Rossen W. (2020), Fractional-Flow Theory for Non-Newtonian Surfactant-Alternating-Gas Foam Processes, Transport in Porous Media 131(2): 399-426.
- Prado V., Cinelli M., Haar S.F. ter, Ravikumar D., Heijungs R., Guinée J.B. & Seager T.P. (2020), Sensitivity to weighting in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 25: 2393–2406.