Lars Nungesser

Special Expertise

Main areas of research: Sustainable Consumption & Products

Topics:

• Food / Food Technology
• Sustainable Supply Chains
• Conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Carbon Footprints to evaluate and optimize products, processes, and technologies

Methods:

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
• Input–Output Analysis
• Material Flow Analysis (MFA)
• Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF)

Key Projects

• Environmental footprint of frozen foods 2025
• Design options for economically sustainable biodiversity-enhancing milk production systems in the model organic regions of Freiburg and Ravensburg
• Internalization of the external environmental costs of food

Professional Training and Carreer

• since 2024: Researcher at Oeko-Institut, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division
• 2023-2024: Research Assistant at Oeko-Institut, Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division
• 2022-2023: Research Assistant at the Chair of Industrial Ecology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
• 2018-2021: M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• 2020: Academic exchange semester, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
• 2017-2018: Research Assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Freiburg
• 2014-2018: B.Sc. in Bionics, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences (Bocholt)

Language Skills

• English