Dr. Hanna Kröhnert

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

Life Cycle Assessment, LCA

Experience

• LCA project specialist (employed externally)
  ZHAW
  10 / 2021 - 06 / 2023
• Safety inspector
  Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, ENSI
  10 / 2010 - 05 / 2019

Education and Continuing education

Education

• MSc. Environment and Natural Resources / Life Cycle Assessment
  ZHAW
  09 / 2018 - 07 / 2021
• PhD / Nuclear reactor physics
  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
  08 / 2006 - 02 / 2011
• MSc. Mechanical Engineering / Energy and process engineering
  TU Braunschweig, Germany
  09 / 2000 - 06 / 2006

Projects

• Leitlinien zur Ökobilanz-Methodik für solare Wärme und Kühlung / Team member / Project ongoing
• CarNe – Carbon Negative Biochar-based Building Insulation Materials / Team member / Project completed
• Ökobilanz der Fassadenbegrünung / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Kröhnert, Hanna; Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias,

  2022.

  Comparing flexible and conventional monolithic building design : life cycle environmental impact and potential for material circulation.

  Building and Environment.

  2022(222), pp. 109409.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109409

• Kröhnert, Hanna; Stucki, Matthias,

  2021.

  Life cycle assessment of a plant-based, regionally marketed shampoo and analysis of refill options.

  Sustainability.

  13(15).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158478

• Frehner, Alena; Stucki, Matthias; Kröhnert, Hanna,

  2023.

  How green is a green façade? : life cycle assessment of a façade greening at a Swiss hospital [poster].

  In:

  11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30529

• Itten, René; Oberschelp, Christopher; Kröhnert, Hanna; Stucki, Matthias,

  2023.

  Life Cycle Inventories of solid fossil fuels : updates for electricity generation from hard coal, lignite and peat.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30218

• Frehner, Alena; Kröhnert, Hanna; Stucki, Matthias,

  2022.

  Umweltauswirkungen von Fassadenbegrünungen : Ökobilanz der Fassadenbegrünung am Triemli-Turm in Zürich.

  Zürich:

  Stadt Zürich, Amt für Hochbauten.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25953

• Itten, René; Götz, Michael; Kröhnert, Hanna,

  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.

• Stucki, Matthias; Kröhnert, Hanna,

  2023.

  Plant based insulation as carbon sink? : life cycle assessment of biochar based building Insulation material.

  In:

  11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Fission Rates Measured Using High-Energy Gamma-Rays from Short Half-Life Fission Products in Fresh and Spent Nuclear Fuel
• Gamma-ray spectrometric measurements of fission rate ratios between fresh and burnt fuel following irradiation in a zero-power reactor
• Freshly induced short-lived gamma-ray activity as a measure of fission rates in lightly re-irradiated spent fuel

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