Malte Schäfer
About Me
I am a researcher at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, department of product safety and quality engineering (PSQ).
Research Interests
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Corporate greenhouse gas accounting
- Electricity-related (scope 2) emissions
News
- [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.
- [Nov 2023] I presented some of my research on grid emission factors at the 85th LCA Discussion Forum in Zurich, Switzerland.
- [Jun-Jul 2023] Research stay at O.I.E. at MINES ParisTech in the group of Paula Pérez-López in Sophia Antipolis, France.
- [Jun 2023] Took part in the Advanced LCA Summer School by O.I.E. at MINES ParisTech and the EcoSD Network in Sophia Antipolis, France.
- [May 2023] Presented a poster on additionality at the 31st GEE Student Chapter in Dresden.
- [Apr 2023] Presented research in progress on additionality at a workshop on scope 2 emission accounting at DTU in Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark.
- [Mar 2023] Presented a poster at the OpenMod Workshop in Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria.
- [Sep 2022] Presented my research at the 8th International Conference on Smart Energy Systems in Aalborg, Denmark.
Publications
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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
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Sustainable Prod. Dvl.
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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
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Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
Visualizations
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Green Hydrogen
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Demand Side Mgmt.
Lobbying
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Renewable Energy
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Open Data
Open letter to the International Energy Agency and its member countries: Please remove paywalls from global energy data and add appropriate open licensesOnline, 2021.
Imprint
Malte Schäfer
Allerstraße 4
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
Allerstraße 4
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
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