Sustainable Products & Material Flows

Lars Nungesser

Researcher

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
  • GOBIOM
  • Externalized costs in the food sector

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

Contact

Lars Nungesser

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