Speakers for this event

• Guido Sonnemann

  Guido Sonnemann

  Professor of Chemistry @ Université de Bordeaux

  Prof. Guido Sonnemann undertakes teaching and research in the field of life cycle approaches for sustainable chemistry and materials management at the University of Bordeaux, France, where he heads the Life Cycle Group CyVi at the Institute of Molecular Sciences. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Rovira and Virgili, Spain, after training in environmental chemistry and engineering in France and Germany.  After a time as consultant, he worked for ten years from 2002 to 2012 on various aspects of life cycle and integrated resource management in the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris, at the end as scientific focal point for the Resource Efficiency sub-programme.  He has published more than hundred journal papers, book chapters and professional reports. He is a co-editor of recent books on Life Cycle Management and on Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development.

  Professor of Chemistry @ Université de Bordeaux

• Tobias Viere

  Tobias Viere

  Professor at University of Pforzheim

  Since September 2013 Tobias Viere is professor for energy and material flow analysis at the Institute for Industrial Ecology, Pforzheim University. He is teaching resource efficiency, life cycle thinking, sustainability management and further topics. Prior to his professorship, he was head of research and consulting of the Institut für Umweltinformatik Hamburg GmbH (Institute for environmental informatics Hamburg Ltd.).

  Tobias holds Master degrees in Environmental Studies, accomplished the Postgraduate School of Industrial Ecology within the EU’s Marie Curie Program and was awarded his PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the Leuphana University in Lüneburg.

  His research interest is in industrial ecology, particularly material and energy flow based cost accounting, life cycle engineering and carbon footprint, and resource efficiency. He has published in a variety of journals and edited books.

  Professor at University of Pforzheim