Corinna Baumgartner
Corinna Baumgartner
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Technology Assessment
Technoparkstrasse 2
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position at the ZHAW
Senior Reserach Associate Technology Assessment & Circular Economy
www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/ine/
Education and Continuing education
Expertise and research interests
Technology Assessment and Sustainability Assessment: Life cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing; Ecoefficiency-analysis
Circular Economy & Sustainable Resource Management
Sustainability of and by emerging technologies
Sustainable Digitalisation
Sustainability assessment in early-stage design and development phases of products and systems
Teaching:
BION-EN - Biomimicry
SIC-NIK - Sustainability of ICT
EneP - Carbon & Ecological Footprint, Material Flow Analysis
EVA FOTA, MAS WI: Life Cycle Assessment
CAS CAS Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions – Data, Energy and Mobility: Sustainability assessment, potential analysis
Professional milestones
Seit 06/2020 Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Development
06/2018 - 05/2020 Research Assistant at the Institute for Sustainable Development
02/2015 - 08/2017 Research Associate, Research group Sustainable resource management , Institute for Ecopreneurship (IEC), FHNW
* Project lead of the subproject "Economic Assessment of Industrial and Municipal Waste Treatment Options and Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Systems" of the NFP70 project "wastEturn"
* Capacity building and supervision in LCA & SimaPro in Lithuania in the bilateral [CH/LTU] research project (SNF) "ME-LOOPS: Circular Economy: Closing Material and Energy Flows Effieciently"
09/2012 - 01/2015 Reserach assistant, Research group Sustainable resource management , Institute for Ecopreneurship (IEC), FHNW
* NSustainability assessment in the EU FP7 project "SUNFLOWER", Work Package: Environmental risk assessment and sustainability of Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)
10/2009 - 07/2010 Biology laboratory technichian, research group: Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging, Dep. Biomedicine, University hospital Basel
08/2006 - 03/2009 Biology laboratory technichian, Dep. Neuroscience, Fa. Hoffmann La Roche AG
Educational background
09/2015 - 12/2015
CTI Entrepreneuship – Modul Business Concept
09/2012 - 02/2015
MSc in Life Sciences, Specialisation in Environmental Technologies (FHNW)
* Thesis: Feasibility study of eco-efficient measures to maintain and improve water status at river basin scale in Romania.
* 6 months stay in Timisoara, Romania
09/2009 - 08/2012
BSc in Life Science Technologies, Vertiefung in Umwelttechnik (FHNW)
* Thesis: Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Photovoltaic Production - Documentation of a sustainability assessment for the production process of organic solar cells.
08/2003 - 07/2006, Apprenticeship Biology Laboratory Technician, Swiss Certificate of Competence, Fa. Hoffmann La Roche, Specialisation: biochemistry und molecular biology
Membership of networks
- SNV Normenkommitee 174: Umwelt & Nachhaltigkeit
- Alumni Environmental Technology, School of Life Science, FHNW
Social media
Projects
- ESAM - Evaluation System for Additive Manufacturing / Team member / Project ongoing
- Massive Decarbonisation of the Swiss Building Stock (RENOWAVE) / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
- Vertiefung des Know-how-Aufbaus im Zusammenhang mit der Verwendung nachhaltiger Materialien als Ersatz fossil basierter Materialien in der Produktentwicklung / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
- Innovation Booster Applied Circular Sustainability / Team member / Project ongoing
- Validierung eines Evaluationssystems für die Zirkularität von Produkten im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Kreislaufwirtschaft / Project leader / Project completed
- Onlinezeiten-Fussabdruckrechner / Project leader / Project completed
Publications
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Manz, Oliver; Meyer, Sonja; Baumgartner, Corinna,
2022.
In:
IoT '21 Proceedings.
11th International Conference on the Internet of Things, St. Gallen (online), 8-11 November 2021.
New York:
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 72-79.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3494322.3494332
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.
Other publications
Potential of Internet of Things to Act as Enabler for Reducing Energy Consumption & CO2 Emissions in Switzerland. T. Kühn, V. Carabias-Hütter, C. Baumgartner, B. Shala, D. Suter. Behave 2018. Zürich. Konferenzvortrag.