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

• 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., & Stucki, M. (2022). Comparing flexible and conventional monolithic building design : life cycle environmental impact and potential for material circulation. Building and Environment, 2022(222), 109409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109409
• Kröhnert, H., & Stucki, M. (2021). Life cycle assessment of a plant-based, regionally marketed shampoo and analysis of refill options. Sustainability, 13(15). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158478

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Kröhnert, H., Frehner, A., & Stucki, M. (2025, September 11). Bringing wind energy models up to speed : updated life cycle inventory data for on- and offshore wind energy generation. 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34162
• Frehner, A., Stucki, M., & Kröhnert, H. (2023, September 6). How green is a green façade? : life cycle assessment of a façade greening at a Swiss hospital. 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France, 6-8 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30529

Other publications

• Kröhnert, H., Frehner, A., & Stucki, M. (2025). Life cycle inventories of wind energy : electricity generation from onshore and offshore wind farms for the Swiss and European context. Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-33947
• Itten, R., Oberschelp, C., Kröhnert, H., & Stucki, M. (2023). Life Cycle Inventories of solid fossil fuels : updates for electricity generation from hard coal, lignite and peat. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30218
• Frehner, A., Kröhnert, H., & Stucki, M. (2022). Umweltauswirkungen von Fassadenbegrünungen : Ökobilanz der Fassadenbegrünung am Triemli-Turm in Zürich. Stadt Zürich, Amt für Hochbauten. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25953

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Stucki, M., Kröhnert, H., & Frehner, A. (2025, September 10). Bringing wind energy models up to speed : updated life cycle inventory data for on- and offshore wind energy generation. 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Palermo, Italy, 9-12 September 2025.
• 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.
• Stucki, M., & Kröhnert, H. (2023, September 7). Plant based insulation as carbon sink? : life cycle assessment of biochar based building Insulation material. 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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