Stefanie Hellweg
Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Stefanie Hellweg has been professor for Ecological Systems Design at the Institute of Environmental Engineering in the Department Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering since 2006. She was born in Essen (Germany) in 1971 and studied industrial engineering at Karlsruhe University. After graduating in 1996, she worked as a management consultant on projects in the field of waste management and energy production. From 1997 to 2000 she completed her Ph.D. on the environmental assessment of thermal waste treatment processes at ETH Zurich. From 2001 to 2002 she worked as a post-doc in a joint project between PSI and ETH on sustainable waste management. In 2003 she became a senior research fellow at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at ETH Zurich where she lead several projects on the environmental assessment of chemical products and processes, the treatment of waste and wastewaters from the chemical industry, and chemical exposure at the workplace. Between 2004 and 2005 she was a visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in 2013 at Yale University in the US.
Research Interest
Modeling, evaluating and improving the environmental impact of products, technologies and consumption patterns
