Stefano Cucurachi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology.

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News

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  20 July 2023 Leiden industrial ecologist and Italian pharma company receive an EU grant to realise sustainable drug production
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  31 January 2022 Four science professors receive Senior Teaching Qualification certificate
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  21 June 2021 How a Dutch man collecting 400,000 pieces of litter ended up on a scientific paper
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  26 January 2021 Making a technology sustainable that doesn’t even exist yet
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  08 October 2019 The art of being a teacher
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  21 February 2019 Online Experience 2.0 Urban Studies - City Biodiversity
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  01 February 2019 SUNRISE: from sunlight to smart city
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  08 January 2019 Cucurachi, Behrens and Matthee are teacher, discoverer, and PhD candidate of 2018
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  20 September 2018 Saving the environment by banning plastic bags?

PhD Candidates

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  Suiting Ding PhD candidate / guest
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  Jana Enking PhD candidate / Guest
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  Nethmi Sewwandi Kankanamge Dona PhD candidate
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  Stewart McDowall PhD candidate
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  Carlos Siguenza Sanchez Guest PhD candidate
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  Kristie Tjokro PhD candidate

Former PhD candidates

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  Carlos F. Blanco Rocha

Professional experience and research Interests

Stefano Cucurachi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology. An industrial engineer by training, Stefano shifted his focus from the optimization of supply chains and logistics systems to assessing the sustainability of socio-technical systems. He obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Science of Leiden University in 2014.

After the attainment of his PhD, Stefano worked as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich with prof. Stefanie Hellweg and at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with prof. Sangwon Suh. 
For over a decade, Stefano has been developing methods of quantitative sustainability assessment, with a focus on life cycle assessment (LCA). Stefano has been contributing to methodological developments across all phases of LCA, from inventory and impact assessment methods to uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
Back to CML since 2017, Stefano has been focusing on the ex-ante and prospective application of LCA to assess emerging technologies at the earliest stages of innovation. In this context, he has been collaborating with technology developers, scientists, and companies at the forefront of innovation to guide the development of emerging technologies and systems towards more sustainable pathways. 

Stefano has been applying LCA to, among others: 
•    TRL-1 disruptive designs
•    Novel designs of solar cells
•    Lightweight recycled components used in the automotive industry
•    Novel circular business models, and novel food technologies.
Stefano has been using such case studies towards the continuous innovation of LCA methods. 

Since 2019, Stefano has been the director of the Master’s of Science of Industrial Ecology, a joint program of Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Stefano is a core lecturer in the program and has a passion for university education and is constantly looking for new ways to innovate education on sustainability. His goal is to inspire and train a new generation of experts to effectively address global challenges and wicked problems.

Publications