Corinna Baumgartner
Corinna Baumgartner
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Research area Technology Assessment and Resilience Engineering
Technoparkstrasse 2
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Lecturer & Senior Researcher Technology Assessment & Circular Economy
Focus
- Technology Assessment
- Sustainability Assessment (eLCA, LCC, sLCA)
- Circular Economy and sustainable resource management
- Sustainability of and by new and emerging technologies
- Sustainability of and by digitalisation (e.g. IoT)
- Sustainability assessment in design and development phases of products, processes and systems
Teaching
- Bionics (Level BSc)
- EnEP: Carbon and ecological footprints (Level BSc)
- TEAS: Technology Assessment (Level MSc)
- LCSA: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (Level MSc)
- Sustainability of information and communication technology (Level BSc)
- CECO: Life Cycle Assessment in product design (Level BSc)
- EVA FOTA: Life Cycle Assessment (Level MSE)
- Life Cycle Assessment (Level MAS)
Professional development teaching
CAS Circular Economy for Engineers
Experience
- Lecturer
ZHAW, School of Engineering, Institute for Sustainable Development
08 / 2024 - today - Senior Researcher
ZHAW INE
06 / 2020 - 07 / 2024 - Research assistant
ZHAW INE
06 / 2018 - 05 / 2020 - Research Associate for sustainable resource management
FHNW, School of Life Sciences, Institute für Ecopreneurship IEC
02 / 2015 - 08 / 2017 - Research assistant for sustainable resource management
FHNW, School of Life Sciences, Institute für Ecopreneurship IEC
09 / 2012 - 01 / 2015 - Biology laboratory assistant, Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging
University Hospital Basel, dep. biomedicine
10 / 2009 - 07 / 2010 - Biology laboratory assistant, dep. neuroscience
Hoffman La Roche AG
08 / 2006 - 03 / 2009
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Master of Science / Life Sciences, Spezialisierung in Environmental Technologies
FHNW
09 / 2012 - 02 / 2015 - Bachelor of Science / Life Sciences, specialisation in Environmental Technologies
FHNW
09 / 2009 - 08 / 2012
Continuing Education
CTI Entrepreneurship - Modul Business Concept
CTI
12 / 2015
Network
Membership of networks
SNV Normenkommitee 174: Umwelt & Nachhaltigkeit
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Evaluation System for Additive Manufacturing Sustainability / Team member / ongoing
- Enabling manufacturing companies to implement the circular economy through the use of data / Team member / ongoing
- IoT Sustainability Lab / Co-project leader / ongoing
- Evaluation System for Additive Manufacturing / Team member / completed
- Massive Decarbonisation of the Swiss Building Stock / Co-project leader / completed
- Innovation Booster Applied Circular Sustainability / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Baumgartner, C. and Helmers, E. (2024) 'Life cycle assessment of electric kick scooters : consolidating environmental impact quantification and concluding climate-friendly use options', Environmental Sciences Europe, 36(1), p. 96. doi: 10.1186/s12302-024-00920-x.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Berger, S. et al. (2026) 'Mycelium material substitutes conventional bicycle helmet material by adapted design for X processes', in Podleisek, A. et al. (eds) Advances in circular economy: bridging research and practice. Cham: Springer, pp. 71–84. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-21547-5_6.
- Stieger, R. et al. (2025) 'Social value creation by smart services', in The 9th Naples Forum on Service, Sorrento, Italy, 9-12 June 2025. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34803.
- Baumgartner, C. et al. (2025) 'Assessing the environmental impact of IoT devices : hotspots and guidelines for a better understanding', in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106638.
- Manz, O., Meyer, S. and Baumgartner, C. (2022) 'Life cycle assessment of an Internet of Things product : environmental impact of an intelligent smoke detector', in IoT '21 Proceedings. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 72–79. doi: 10.1145/3494322.3494332.
Other publications
- Spada, M. and Baumgartner, C. (2026) Report on final LCSA-framework. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36109.
- Spada, M., Lobsiger-Kägi, E. and Baumgartner, C. (2025) Report on initial LCSA-framework and comprehensive list of sustainability indicators. Winterthur: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-35998.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Life Cycle Assessment and eco-efficiency of prospective, flexible, tandem organic photovoltaic module. D. Hengevoss, C. Baumgartner, G. Nisato, C. Hugi. Nov 2016. Solar Energy: 137, p. 317-327.
- Optimizing Swiss waste management to support the energy-turnaround: wastETurn. M. Haupt, C. Vadenbo, E. Capon-Garcia, C. Baumgartner, M. Duygan, S. Hellweg, K. Hungerbühler. LCM 2015, Bordeaux. Conference poster.
- Health Economic Model For Novel In Vitro Diagnostic Kit For Infective Endocarditis. C. Baumgartner, T. Matt, C. Hugi. Nov 2014. Value in Health: 17, Issue 7, p. A679-A680.
- Sustainability assessment of roll-to-roll manufactured organic photovoltaic. C. Baumgartner, D. Hengevoss, C. Hugi. 2013. LOPEC 2013, Munich. Conference presentation.
- C. Baumgartner, N. Brun, D. Hengevoss, Y. Zimmermann, C. Hugi. 2012. Deliverable D4.1: Environmental risk assessment and sustainability of OPVs. Technical report EU FP7 SUNFLOWER (GA-No.: 287594).
- C. Baumgartner, D. Hengevoss, C. Hugi. 2014. Ökologischer Nutzen nachgewiesen. Artikel. Umweltperspektive 01/2014.