Michael Götz
Michael Götz
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
Grüentalstrasse 14
8820 Wädenswil
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. and Itten, R. (2023) 'Environmental impacts of railway tunnel construction & operation : tunnel cross-section vs. traction energy demand', in 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023. Wädenswil: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30527.
Other publications
- Götz, M. et al. (2024) Klima-Emissionsberechnung für das Green Impact Book der ZHAW : Lösungskonzept für die Klimabilanz und Anwendung auf die Jahre 2017 - 2022. Wädenswil: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-31539.
- Götz, M. (2023) 'Ökobilanz eines Eisenbahntunnels : Umweltauswirkungen von Bau und Betrieb des projektierten Brüttenertunnels', IUNR Magazin, 2023(1), pp. 14–15. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30757.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Chryssolouris, D. et al. (2025) 'One person's trash is another's treasure : assessing the life cycle sustainability of bio-based innovations in brewery by-product valorisation', in 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025.
- Götz, M., Itten, R. and Terzer, E. (2025) 'Global biodiversity footprints of agricultural production systems : comparing the biodiversity impacts of staple and luxury food crops', in 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025.
- Wanner, S., Götz, M. and Stucki, M. (2024) 'Urbanisation of food production : can indoor vertical farming reduce the footprint of kitchen herbs?', in 14th LCA FOOD International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2024.
- Götz, M. and Itten, R. (2024) 'Biodiversity footprints of EV battery technologies : comparing the biodiversity impacts of mineral & metal mining', in 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC), Berlin, Germany (hybrid), 3 - 5 July 2024.
- Götz, M. et al. (2023) 'Life cycle approaches for biodiversity impacts of mining and resource extraction : combining remote sensing and life cycle assessment', in World Resources Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2023.
- Götz, M., Wanner, S. and Stucki, M. (2023) 'Urbanisation of food production : can indoor vertical farming reduce the footprint of kitchen herbs?', in 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023.
- Itten, R., Götz, M. and Kröhnert, H. (2023) 'Remote sensing based data products for large scale life cycle inventory models', in 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023.