Postdoctoral Trainees

Luca Ciacci is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari” at the University of Bologna (UNIBO). His research line includes the analysis of anthropogenic cycles of resources and assessment of the nexus between demand-supply dynamics of materials and their environmental consequences for the sustainability challenge. To this aim, material flow analysis, life cycle assessment, and chemometrics techniques are commonly applied and mainstreamed in the field of Environmental Chemistry.

Environmental Scientist and M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management by Universitat de Barcelona. David Font Vivanco obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 from Leiden University with a thesis on rebound effects in industrial ecology. Since then he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University and University College London, working on the development of environmental-economic models that combine life cycle assessment, input-output analysis, econometrics, computable general equilibrium models, and other tools. David is a two-time Graedel Prize recipient, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship awardee, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. David also has professional experience in the fields of industrial and municipal waste management and environmental economics in industry, government, and consultancy. Currently, David is a life cycle specialist at 2.-0 LCA consultants where he carries out both research and consultancy work related to life cycle sustainability assessment.

I am an Adjunct Professor for Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, a lecturer for Prospective Environmental Assessment at ETH Zurich, and sustainability specialist at the city of Zurich. Furthermore, I am a Data Editor at the journals of Industrial Ecology and Nature Scientific Data.

My research focuses on the analysis and forecast of environmental impacts of socio-economic systems, such as building stocks. In my work I often combine methods and tools from the environmental and computational science disciplines to develop, for instance, probabilistic approaches for big data analysis.

Grégoire serves as research associate at the International Management Institute of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on the application of circular economy principles in the Swiss manufacturing sector and the promotion of clean technologies in emerging economies. He also lectures in circular economy management and carbon literacy for law and management students at the BSc. and MSc. levels. Besides these research and teaching activities, he provides international organizations and companies with consultancy in the field of cleaner production and industrial ecology and

Grégoire studied environmental engineering at ETH Zurich, earning there an MSc. degree in 2007, before working two years for a Swiss NGO promoting environmental management and cleaner production in the Middle East and North Africa. He helped set up Jordan’s Cleaner Production Unit by enabling knowledge transfer in life cycle assessment. Grégoire then obtained a PhD in 2013, again at ETH Zurich, with a thesis entitled “Integrating stakeholder perspectives into policy support of municipal solid waste management”. Between 2013 and 2017, he was a postdoc et ETH Zurich and Yale’s Center for Industrial Ecology, continuing to approach industrial ecology from a transdisciplinary perspective and acquiring both research and consultancy projects. He joined ZHAW in 2017 to build teaching and research capacities in circular economy management with a focus on Swiss industrial companies and international cooperation. He co-designed and is managing the continuous training program “CAS Managing Circular Economy”. From 2018 to 2020, he lectured at ETH Zurich on the co-evolution of society and the environment.