Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

How can we develop and further improve life cycle impact assessment methods, characterisation factors and normalisation factors?

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

Are there significant differences among the environmental impacts resulting form the production of Asian aquaculture commodities and what are the main causes for these?

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

Possible improvements for the assessment of abiotic depletion in LCA.

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

The project falls in the context of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (COM(2005)670). The Institute for Environment and Resources (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed three sets of decoupling indicators. Such indicators require the definition of a…

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Some examples of research questions include: What framework of circular strategies should local practitioners use? How should practitioners organize their monitoring of the circular economy activities in the region of interest? What are the main products that have the most circular potential in the…

Hoe kunnen we onze maatschappij zo inrichten dat de wereld leefbaar blijft voor onszelf en al het andere leven om ons heen? Aan dat vraagstuk werken Leidse wetenschappers samen vanuit allerlei disciplines, van biologie tot datawetenschap en van milieueconomie tot archeologie.

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

Tussentijds toetsen bevordert de studieprestaties. Daarbij maakt het niet uit hoe zo’n tussentijdse toets eruit ziet.

Deze tweejarige masteropleiding wordt aangeboden door het Leiden Institute of Chemistry en heeft een focus op technologische en fundamentele kennis en expertise. Tijdens de opleiding doe je onderzoek naar de processen van de levende cel met fundamenteel wetenschappelijke én toegepaste technologie. Je…

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.