Michael Götz

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate, Life Cycle Assessment Research Group

Experience

• Photovoltaics Specialist
  Solarville AG / CKW Gebäudetechnik AG
  2023 - 2025
• Project Manager Photovoltaics
  Solarville AG / CKW Gebäudetechnik AG
  2013 - 2023

Projects

• Using brewery sidestreams to manufacture innovative products / Project leader / ongoing
• Review of Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Inventory models for Food Side Stream Utilisation and Valorisation Pathways / Project leader / completed
• Local food for the future / Team member / completed
• Climate emissions calculation for the ZHAW Green Impact Book: solution concept for the carbon footprint and implementation since 2017 / Deputy project leader / completed

Publications

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Götz, M., Stucki, M., & Itten, R. (2023, September 6). Environmental impacts of railway tunnel construction & operation : tunnel cross-section vs. traction energy demand. 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30527

Other publications

• Götz, M., Keller, R., Bradford, S., Linpinsel, M., Bortoluzzi, F., & Stucki, M. (2024). Klima-Emissionsberechnung für das Green Impact Book der ZHAW : Lösungskonzept für die Klimabilanz und Anwendung auf die Jahre 2017 - 2022. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31539
• Götz, M. (2023). Ökobilanz eines Eisenbahntunnels : Umweltauswirkungen von Bau und Betrieb des projektierten Brüttenertunnels. IUNR Magazin, 2023(1), 14–15. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30757

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Chryssolouris, D., Götz, M., Stössel, F., Rodrigo, A., & Stucki, M. (2025, September 12). One person’s trash is another’s treasure : assessing the life cycle sustainability of bio-based innovations in brewery by-product valorisation. 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025.
• Götz, M., Itten, R., & Terzer, E. (2025, September 11). Global biodiversity footprints of agricultural production systems : comparing the biodiversity impacts of staple and luxury food crops. 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025.
• Wanner, S., Götz, M., & Stucki, M. (2024, September 10). Urbanisation of food production : can indoor vertical farming reduce the footprint of kitchen herbs? 14th LCA FOOD International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2024.
• Götz, M., & Itten, R. (2024, July). Biodiversity footprints of EV battery technologies : comparing the biodiversity impacts of mineral & metal mining. 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC), Berlin, Germany (Hybrid), 3 - 5 July 2024.
• Götz, M., Itten, R., Orpiszewski, T., Hauser, L., & Laube, P. (2023, September). Life cycle approaches for biodiversity impacts of mining and resource extraction : combining remote sensing and life cycle assessment. World Resources Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2023.
• Götz, M., Wanner, S., & Stucki, M. (2023, September 8). Urbanisation of food production : can indoor vertical farming reduce the footprint of kitchen herbs? 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023.
• Itten, R., Götz, M., & Kröhnert, H. (2023, September 8). Remote sensing based data products for large scale life cycle inventory models. 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023.

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