Corinna Baumgartner
Corinna Baumgartner
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Technology Assessment
Technoparkstrasse 2
8400 Winterthur
Personal profile
Position at the ZHAW
Senior Reserach Associate Technology Assessment & Circular Economy
www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/ine/
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
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
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
Membership of networks
- Innovation Booster: Applied Circular Sustainability
- SNV Normenkommitee 174: Umwelt & Nachhaltigkeit
- FachFrauen Umwelt
- Alumni Environmental Technology, School of Life Science, FHNW
- SheroES - community for women in tech at the School of Engineering (Intranet only)
Projects
- 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. doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.08.025
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. doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2014.08.2531
Ökologischer Nutzen nachgewiesen. C. Baumgartner, D. Hengevoss, C. Hugi. 2014. Umweltperspektiven 01/2014.
Sustainability assessment of roll-to-roll manufactured organic photovoltaic. C. Baumgartner, D. Hengevoss, C. Hugi. 2013. LOPEC 2013, Munich. Conference presentation. dx.doi.org/10.13140/2.1.2819.3923
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.