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Overview

Matthias Finkbeiner is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and engineering. Their research spans multiple areas, notably environmental engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their main research interests include environmental impact and sustainability, extraction and separation processes, sustainable supply chain management, recycling and waste management techniques, climate change policy and economics, advanced battery technologies research, and agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Finkbeiner has published numerous papers in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Resources
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Matthias Finkbeiner are:

  • Hydrogen and hydrogen-derived fuels through methane decomposition of natural gas - GHG emissions and costs, 2020, Energy Conversion and Management X
  • Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment, 2021, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Sustainability Assessment of a Single-Use Plastics Ban, 2020, Sustainability
  • Comparison of Different Monetization Methods in LCA: A Review, 2020, Sustainability
  • A Review of Life Cycle Assessment Studies of Electric Vehicles with a Focus on Resource Use, 2020, Resources

Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Vanessa Bach, Markus Berger, Peter Holzapfel, Vlad C. Coroamă, and Rosalie Arendt. These collaborations have resulted in over one hundred joint publications, with Vanessa Bach being the most frequent collaborator.

Best Publications

  • The New International Standards for Life Cycle Assessment: ISO 14040 and ISO 14044

    Matthias Finkbeiner;Atsushi Inaba;Reginald B. H. Tan;Kim Christiansen

  • Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

    Matthias Finkbeiner;Erwin M. Schau;Annekatrin Lehmann;Marzia Traverso

  • Carbon footprinting—opportunities and threats

    Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Water Footprinting: How to Address Water Use in Life Cycle Assessment?

    Mark us Berger;Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Life cycle assessment of lightweight and end-of-life scenarios for generic compact class passenger vehicles

    Wulf-Peter Schmidt;Elisabeth Dahlqvist;Matthias Finkbeiner;Stephan Krinke

  • Application challenges for the social Life Cycle Assessment of fertilizers within life cycle sustainability assessment

    Julia Martínez-Blanco;Julia Martínez-Blanco;Annekatrin Lehmann;Pere Muñoz;Assumpció Antón

  • Understanding the LCA and ISO water footprint: A response to Hoekstra (2016) “A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA”

    Stephan Pfister;Anne-Marie Boulay;Markus Berger;Michalis Hadjikakou

  • Towards a life cycle sustainability assessment: making informed choices on products

    Andreas Ciroth;Matthias Finkbeiner;Marzia Traverso;Jutta Hildenbrand

  • Life Cycle Sustainability Dashboard

    Marzia Traverso;Matthias Finkbeiner;Andreas Jørgensen;Laura Schneider

  • Social aspects for sustainability assessment of technologies—challenges for social life cycle assessment (SLCA)

    Annekatrin Lehmann;Annekatrin Lehmann;Eva Zschieschang;Marzia Traverso;Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Towards life cycle sustainability assessment: an implementation to photovoltaic modules

    Marzia Traverso;Francesco Asdrubali;Annalisa Francia;Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Water accounting and vulnerability evaluation (WAVE): considering atmospheric evaporation recycling and the risk of freshwater depletion in water footprinting.

    Markus Berger;Ruud van der Ent;Stephanie Eisner;Vanessa Bach

  • Methodological Challenges in Volumetric and Impact‐Oriented Water Footprints

    Markus Berger;Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Product environmental footprint—breakthrough or breakdown for policy implementation of life cycle assessment?

    Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Defining the baseline in social life cycle assessment

    Andreas Jørgensen;Matthias Finkbeiner;Michael Søgaard Jørgensen;Michael Zwicky Hauschild

  • LCA’s theory and practice: like ebony and ivory living in perfect harmony?

    Martin Baitz;Stefan Albrecht;Eloise Brauner;Clare Broadbent

  • Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment

    Sonia Valdivia;Jana Gerta Backes;Marzia Traverso;Guido Sonnemann

  • How LCA contributes to the environmental assessment of higher order effects of ICT application: A review of different approaches

    Johanna Pohl;Lorenz M. Hilty;Lorenz M. Hilty;Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Hydrogen and hydrogen-derived fuels through methane decomposition of natural gas – GHG emissions and costs

    Sebastian Timmerberg;Sebastian Timmerberg;Martin Kaltschmitt;Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Towards life cycle sustainability management

    Matthias Finkbeiner

  • Challenges in Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview of Current Gaps and Research Needs

    Matthias Finkbeiner;Robert Ackermann;Vanessa Bach;Markus Berger

  • Indirect land use change – Help beyond the hype?

    Matthias Finkbeiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Rethmeier
Michael Rethmeier Technical University of Berlin
Stephanie Eisner
Stephanie Eisner University of Kassel
Joan Rieradevall
Joan Rieradevall Autonomous University of Barcelona
Bradley G. Ridoutt
Bradley G. Ridoutt Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter Neubauer
Peter Neubauer Technical University of Berlin
Pere Fullana-i-Palmer
Pere Fullana-i-Palmer Pompeu Fabra University
Assumpció Antón
Assumpció Antón Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Lorenz M. Hilty
Lorenz M. Hilty University of Zurich
Guido Sonnemann
Guido Sonnemann University of Bordeaux

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