Dr. Hanna Kröhnert
Dr. Hanna Kröhnert
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
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
- CYCLEWIND - Harmonised Life Cycle Assessment for Wind Power / Team member / ongoing
- Updated Life Cycle Inventories Data of Wind Power / Deputy project leader / completed
- Carbon Negative Biochar-based Building Insulation Materials / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Kröhnert, H., Itten, R. and Stucki, M. (2022) 'Comparing flexible and conventional monolithic building design : life cycle environmental impact and potential for material circulation', Building and Environment, 2022(222), p. 109409. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109409.
- Kröhnert, H. and Stucki, M. (2021) 'Life cycle assessment of a plant-based, regionally marketed shampoo and analysis of refill options', Sustainability, 13(15). doi: 10.3390/su13158478.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Kröhnert, H., Frehner, A. and Stucki, M. (2025) 'Bringing wind energy models up to speed : updated life cycle inventory data for on- and offshore wind energy generation', in 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025. ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34162.
- Frehner, A., Stucki, M. and Kröhnert, H. (2023) 'How green is a green façade? : life cycle assessment of a façade greening at a Swiss hospital', 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-30529.
Other publications
- Kröhnert, H., Frehner, A. and Stucki, M. (2025) Life cycle inventories of wind energy : electricity generation from onshore and offshore wind farms for the Swiss and European context. Bern: Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-33947.
- Itten, R. et al. (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. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-30218.
- Frehner, A., Kröhnert, H. and Stucki, M. (2022) Umweltauswirkungen von Fassadenbegrünungen : Ökobilanz der Fassadenbegrünung am Triemli-Turm in Zürich. Zürich: Stadt Zürich, Amt für Hochbauten. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-25953.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Stucki, M., Kröhnert, H. and Frehner, A. (2025) 'Bringing wind energy models up to speed : updated life cycle inventory data for on- and offshore wind energy generation', in 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025.
- 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.
- Stucki, M. and Kröhnert, H. (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