Dr. Sc. Techn. ETH Zürich, Dipl.-Ing. TU Berlin
Niels Jungbluth started working with ESU-service in 2000. Since 2006 he acts as a managing director and owns the company. Since starting with LCA in 1994, he worked on more than 300 consultancy projects in the working areas food, biomass, energy systems, input-output-analysis, sustainable consumption, and several other themes.
Niels is listed as an approved individual verifier for the international EPD® System and can also work for other systems like IBU-Bau, PEP or KBOB. He conducts critical reviews and validation according to different standards for case studies and inventory data. Dr. Niels Jungbluth is in the editorial board of the “International Journal of LCA” and in the board of the LCA foods conference. He works as reviewer for other scientific journals.
Niels Jungbluth studied environmental engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. He made his diploma thesis during a six-month stay at the TATA Energy Research Institute in New Delhi, where he prepared a life cycle inventory for cooking fuels in India. Between 1996 and 2000 he worked on a Ph.D. project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich at the chair of Natural and Social Science Interface. His Ph.D. thesis on the environmental consequences of food consumption has been awarded with the Greenhirn Price 2000 by the German Öko-Institut. In this thesis, he investigated food consumption patterns by means of life cycle assessment.
phone: +41 44 940 61 32
mail: jungbluth(at)esu-services.ch