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Resource Efficiency, Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Management, Operations Research
Germany

Biography

Mario Schmidt (born 1960) is a Professor of Environmental Management at the Business School of Pforzheim University and the Director of the Institute of Industrial Ecology. He studied physics at the universities in Freiburg and Heidelberg. Since 1985, he has worked in the fields of emission control, climate change, environmental management and life cycle assessment. In 1989 and 1990, he joined the Ministry of Environment of the State of Hamburg. Afterwards he built up a department at IFEU, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg, focussed on ecological material flow analyses (MFA), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and management systems. He is responsible for numerous studies on behalf of the German Government and many companies. He has written and edited books about material flow analysis, LCA and environmental management and was involved in the development of the professional MFA/LCA-Software. From 2011 to 2014 he was director of the study program “Business Administration / Resource Efficiency Management” (B. Sc.), 2014-2015 of the study program "Life Cycle & Sustainability" (M. Sc.) and since 2016 he has been director of the cooperative Ph.D. program "Energy Systems and Resource Efficiency" together with Prof. Grunwald (KIT Karlsruhe). In 2012 he was appointed to the Council on Sustainable Development of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. From 2015 to 2020 he was Honorary Professor at Leuphana University Lueneburg, Faculty of Sustainability. Mario Schmidt can be contacted at: mario.schmidt@hs-pforzheim.de.

Activities

Employment (4)

Pforzheim University: Pforzheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, DE

1999 to present | Director and Professor (Institute for Industrial Ecology)
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit: Luneburg, Niedersachsen, DE

2015-06-24 to 2020-09-30 | Honorary Professor (Department for Sustainability)
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IFEU Institute for Energy and Environmental research: Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, DE

1990 to 1999 | Senior Scientist
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Senator for Environment of the State of Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

1989 to 1990 | Officer (Office for Environmental Protection)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg: Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, DE

Dr. rer. nat. (Department for Sustainability)
Education
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Ruprecht Karls Universitat Heidelberg: Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, DE

1980 to 1985 | Diploma in Physics (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
Education
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, DE

1978 to 1980 | Undergraduate in physics (Department of Physics)
Education
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Peer review (41 reviews for 15 publications/grants)

Review activity for Biophysical economics and resource quality. (2)
Review activity for Carbon management. (2)
Review activity for Chemical engineering & technology. (1)
Review activity for Ecological economics. (2)
Review activity for International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation. (1)
Review activity for Journal of cleaner production. (1)
Review activity for Journal of industrial ecology. (5)
Review activity for Resources, conservation and recycling. (4)
Review activity for Science of the total environment. (2)
Review activity for Sustainability Management Forum (8)
Review activity for Sustainability management forum (6)
Review activity for Sustainability. (1)
Review activity for Sustainable materials and technologies. (1)
Review activity for The international journal of life cycle assessment. (1)
Review activity for The international journal of life cycle assessment. (4)