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Birgit Brunklaus

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+46 10 516 59 93

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birgit.brunklaus@ri.se

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Göteborg

ORCID

0000-0003-2066-6371

Birgit Brunklaus is a senior researcher in LCA and circularity. She has more than 20 years of LCA and sustainability strategies. PhD in LCA with a focus on management and services. Assistant Professor in "LCA for social systems" from Chalmers. Since 2015 at RISE with circular economy and social sustainability.

Research projects in LCA and service development (PSS): LCA of Healthcare Service, LCA of IoT, LCA of Electronics, Digital Service, Waste Services, Service Sector. Climate-smart event. Previous projects in culture (concert, tourism and film production, theater and opera). Discussion forum in Switzerland: How to harmonize and compare LCA in the service industry (2022).

Research projects in LCA and circular economy (CE): Circular Production: The circular car (2023-2026), CIRCUS (2023-2026), Re-cert Bygg (2023-2026). Circular Building, Environmental Investment Green Roofs, Circular Consumption (IO-LCA).(2018-2020). Circular procurement: Circular economy in practice in Malmö City (Environment-Spend). (2020-2022). Sharing economy: Evaluation of sharing services (Sharing cities, Gbg city).

She leads RISE's expertise in social LCA: She is a course leader in social LCA (2023). The course within Database PSILCA (2023). Guide for social sustainability (Boverket, 2024). Research projects in Social LCA and socio-economic analysis: Bio-materials and Bio-energy (2016-2019), Chemicals, Agri-Food (2000-2024).

She leads the working group within LCA and circularity within the Swedish Life Cycle Center (2024). She is an invited speaker and session leader at conferences in circular economy and lifestyles (2019-2023), Social LCA (2022-2024), LCA and IoT (SETAC 2024). Course leader in LCA and social LCA, as well as CSR and GHG protocols (2023-2024).

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The Circular Car

Transport accounts for almost a third of Sweden's greenhouse gas emissions and the car industry has ambitious targets to reduce the emissions. The project Circular Car project aims to support new and established actors in the…

CIRCUS - Circular use of plastic in the automotive industry

Which plastic car parts can be reused, and which parts can be material recycled into new car parts in a safe and resource-efficient way? These are important questions for the automotive industry, questions that are addressed in th…

Re-Cert Bygg

Sustainable and climate-neutral construction is important for the construction industry, which has a large carbon footprint. The project will develop and manufacture construction products containing recycled plastic with high qual…

NewLife – Ensures the health of mothers and babies

Implementation of innovative, non-invasive monitoring systems to improve the health of mothers and newborn infants.

Safe to circulate

The automotive industry needs to manage emissions related to materials and components, in addition to the ongoing electrification. The project Safe to Circulate has aimed to investigate the possibility of a data-driven system to m…

Solutions for climate-smart events

This project develops and tests innovations that reduce climate emissions from different types of events. The project aims to create visibility for Swedish innovations in a manner that benefits the Swedish hospitality industry.

TJÅRVEN – Service innovation within recycling from energy perspective

What happens when recycled material ends up in the wrong place? This can lead to increased energy use within the packaging life cycle. New design and service innovation can help people collect, sort right and recycle more. What do…

The Inclusive, Sustainable and Connected Society

The need of combining digitalization and sustainability is featured in many different forums and strategies. In the project The Inclusive, Sustainable and Connected Society, this was a key theme.

Carbon Dioxide Theater at Västmanland County Museum

Carbon Dioxide Theater engages young citizens in participatory methods to explore and critically reflect on social norms and trends related to climate impact. In an inter-generational arena, methodology for theatre and participato…

8 tons of society - circular economy from theory to practice

What resource and material consumption do we give rise to in Sweden? How far can we reach through a transition to a circular economy, and what could our lifestyles look like with sustainable material consumption?

SINA - Stop INeffective USe

The SINUS project aims to increase knowledge of the potential of public organizations to make their material flows more efficient and circular through procurement and procurement procedures that promote efficiency and sharing.

Environmental investment of green roofs - tools and comparisons with LCA

In order to achieve our climate goals in the future, it is important that the materials and techniques you use have a minimal environmental impact, both in new construction and renovation. Therefore, environmental investment of gr…

Life cycle assessment (LCA)

RISE offer both research and consulting activities for Life cycle assessments, LCA. The combination of LCA knowledge and deep technical competence make us unique. We can help you quantify environmental effects from the cradle to t…

Design for sustainable living

Products, services, systems, and built environments can with a user-centered design approach be developed with the intention to support sustainable everyday behaviours, activities, and choices.

Applied Life Cycle Thinking

In order to face current sustainability challenges on e.g. climate and resource issues, companies, authorities and other actors need to develop their abilities to contribute to the environmental, social and economic sustainability…

Social Life Cycle Analysis SLCA

Social sustainability from a lifecycle perspective - can you count social effects? What social indicators are included? The RISE expertise in social life cycle analysis can help you within companies or municipalities with investig…

Nudging

Nudging is a method to enable behavioral change! With the right nudging tools you can make it easier for your user or client to make better choices – more sustainable, safer, and healthier. At RISE we can help you to find the…

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