About
About Me
I am a researcher at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, department of product safety and quality engineering (PSQ), leading a small research group on circular & sustainable product systems.
Focus Areas
Research Interests
- Developing circular products
- Ecodesign
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Corporate GHG Accounting
- Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
- Scope 2 Emissions
- Build software tools
Latest
News
- Jun 2025 The paper Advancing Circular Manufacturing: Benchmarking SME Practices in a German Metal Products Hub Against European Trends by Jacqueline Müller, me, Tim Katzwinkel & Manuel Löwer has been published in Procedia CIRP.
- Feb 2025 The paper Identifying options for additionality tests in the context of scope 2 market-based accounting by me, Caroline Herlev Gebara, Anders Bjørn & Matthew Brander has been published in Carbon Management.
- Oct 2024 The paper Life cycle assessment of electricity from wind, photovoltaic and biogas from maize in combination with area-specific energy yields – a case study for Germany by Jonas Böhm, Fabian Michael Holzheid, me, and Theresa Krexner has been published in Environmental Research Communications.
- Apr 2024 I started a new job as researcher at the department of product safety and quality engineering (PSQ) at Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
- Apr 2024 I successfully defended my dissertation titled "Corporate greenhouse gas accounting for emissions from electricity consumption".
- Mar 2024 The paper Towards standardized grid emission factors: methodological insights and best practices by me, Felipe Cerdas, and Christoph Herrmann has been published in Energy & Environmental Science.
- Mar 2024 The paper Measuring the Doughnut: A good life for all is possible within planetary boundaries by Hauke Schlesier, me, and Harald Desing has been published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
- Mar 2024 The report from the April 2023 workshop on scope 2 emission accounting in Copenhagen has been published in Carbon Management.
Publications
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Circular Manufacturing
Elsevier/Procedia CIRP (58th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems), 2025.PDF Conference paper -
Scope 2 emissions
T&F/Carbon Management, 2025. -
LCA & Renewables
IOP/Environmental Research Communications, 2024. -
Scope 2 emissions
RSC/Energy & Environmental Science, 2024. -
Abs. sustainability
Elsevier/Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024. -
Scope 2 emissions
T&F/Carbon Management, 2024.PDF Rapid communication -
Emerging Materials
Springer/Technologies for economic and functional lightweight design, 2021.PDF Conference paper -
Ecodesign
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Emerging Materials
Springer/Progress in Life Cycle Assessment 2019, 2020.PDF Book chapter
Teaching
Sustainable Prod. Dvl.
Ecodesign/LCA
Talks & Presentations
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Scope 2 emissions
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Scope 2 emissions
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Scope 2 emissions
Quantifying additionality of renewable energy supply options – decision making support for electricity consumersLyngby/Copenhagen (DK), 2023. -
Scope 2 emissions
Improving consumer scope 2 emission accounting practices and decision makingLaxenburg/Vienna (AT), 2023. -
Emission Accounting
Life Cycle Oriented Decision Support for Companies to Reduce Electricity-related Greenhouse EmissionsAalborg (DK), 2022. -
Emission Targets
The Sectoral Decarbonization Approach (SDA) by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)Braunschweig, 2021. -
Emission accounting
Assessing the environmental impact of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES)Braunschweig, 2020. -
LCA Survey
[German] Runder Tisch Life Cycle Assessment im Leichtbau - Bericht aus der AG FertigungOnline, 2020.
Science Communication
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Visualizations
Green Hydrogen
Demand Side Mgmt.
Coding
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SCSSSource for this academic website with custom Minimal Light layout, section includes, and theme toggle built on Jekyll.
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JavaScript
Browser-based Product Circularity Indicator calculator that mirrors the PCI/CCI/CII workflow with CSV import/export, validation, and charts. -
PythonPython scraper for the EU Circular Economy good-practice directory that exports a CSV of listings and optional count plots for key attributes.
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HTML
Interactive dashboard (WIP) comparing oil heating with a heat pump across cost, emissions, and subsidy scenarios using a pure HTML/JS stack. -
HTML
Lightweight linear bicycle model app for teaching lateral dynamics with sliders, stability warnings, and on-canvas force visualization. -
Jupyter Notebook
Notebooks powering the grid emission factor study "Method Madness," including ENTSO-E data wrangling, factor calculation variants, and plotting. -
Jupyter Notebook
Slide-friendly notebook that combines SMARD grid data with Brightway2/Ecoinvent to explore environmental impacts of electricity production. -
HTML
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HTML
Lobbying
Renewable Energy
Open Data
Imprint
Malte Schäfer
Gaußstr. 20
42119 Wuppertal
Germany
Gaußstr. 20
42119 Wuppertal
Germany