In 2015 Bernhard joined CML at Leiden University as a tenure-track assistant professor, however, first embarked on a year of sailing across the Atlantic. In 2022 Bernhard completed his tenure track.

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Professional experience

Bernhard Steubing works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Ecology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University. Bernhard specializes on the further development of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and related methods and applies these to answer sustainability-related questions in energy, electric mobility, the built environment, and other areas. Currently, he dedicates much effort to the advancement of data, methods, and open software for future-oriented, i.e. prospective (or ex-ante) LCA, to provide decision support for the transition to a more circular and sustainable economy. Bernhard has received his PhD from EPFL on the availability and optimal use of biomass for bioenergy, while working at Empa. During his PostDoc at ETH Zurich, he coordinated a project on the optimal environmental use of wood resources and was part of the ecoinvent expert group. He then also started the development of the open source LCA software Activity Browser.

In 2015 Bernhard joined CML at Leiden University as a tenure-track assistant professor, however, first embarked on a year of sailing across the Atlantic. In 2022 Bernhard completed his tenure track.

Research topic

• Prospective LCA, e.g. the development of future background scenarios 
• Advanced modeling approaches for LCA, e.g. modular LCA and the inclusion of background scenarios via the Activity Browser
• Electric mobility and batteries
• Built environment
• Energy
• Carbon Capture and Use (CCU)
• Wood, biomass, bio-economy
• Life Cycle Inventory Databases

Open source software tools

• Activity Browser 
• Other contributions on GitHub

A complete overview of the publications of Bernhard's work - including publications before CML - can be found here: Google Scholar and Scopus.

Publications