Who we are
2.-0 LCA consultants was founded in year 2000 by senior consultant Bo P. Weidema. The company is a Limited Liability Partnership and is owned exclusively by former and current employees.
The team
Bo P. Weidema
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M.Sc. in horticulture in 1984 from the Royal Agricultural University of Copenhagen. In 1993 he obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark on a thesis on life cycle assessment. Since then he has been working as a consultant on life cycle assessment. Executive manager of the ecoinvent database from 2008 to 2012 and its Chief Scientist from 2012 to 2014. He is professor at Aalborg University and president of the International Life Cycle Academy (ILCA), as well as member of the Danish Standards delegation to the ISO TC 207 on environmental management since 1993.
Jannick Schmidt
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Environmental management engineer from 2002 from Aalborg University. Jannick Schmidt obtained his Ph.D. in 2007 with a study on life cycle assessment of rapeseed oil and palm oil. He holds a professorship at Aalborg University. Main areas of expertise and experience are life cycle assessments of agricultural products and waste management systems, and development of LCA methodology regarding system delimitation, LCIA methods for biodiversity and Input-Output-based LCA. Extensive teaching and supervision experience.
Jørgen Rosenkilde
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Jørgen Rosenkilde
Jørgen Rosenkilde is a highly experienced executive with over twenty years of experience driving the growth of international businesses across a diverse range of markets. His expertise spans across sectors such as IT (SaaS), Telecommunications, Life Science & Healthcare, Aerospace & Defense, and Automotive, and extends to markets including the EU, USA, LATAM, and APAC. Jørgen holds an MBA in Strategic Management, Top Governance Board education, and a BSc in International Business and Finance. He also has a military background as a Sergeant in The Royal Lifeguards. Jørgen’s skills encompass a comprehensive grasp of commercial, business, production, financial, and contractual dimensions. With a background in different International C-level positions, he provides a profound knowledge of business development, executing scalable commercial business strategies.
Iris Weidema
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Iris Weidema
M.Sc. in Biology – Biotechnology from Copenhagen University in 2019. Iris has a strong background in teaching and project/people management from her board work in several volunteer organisations and as a facilitator of multiple events. As an LCA consultant Iris has undertaken LCA analyses for a spectrum of organizations and companies. Her focus has primarily been within the domains of agriculture and food production. Nevertheless, her competence extends to a diverse range of projects, spanning from packaging production, energy generation, motors, and sports organisations, and comprehensive organisational LCAs. Presently, she channels her expertise more into her role as COO, and into LCA education material.
Ivan Muñoz
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Ivan Muñoz started working in life cycle assessment (LCA) in 1998. In his Ph.D. on environmental science (UAB, 2006) he focused his research on the suitability of LCA as a tool for Green Chemistry. He has been research fellow in several universities: ESCI-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), Centro de Investigaciones de la Energia Solar-University of Almeria (Spain) and Centre for Environmental Strategy-University of Surrey (UK). From 2009 to 2013 he worked in the UK for the consumer goods company Unilever. Ivan has worked on LCA for ecodesign, solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, agriculture, and food production, applying not only LCA but other related tools like environmental risk assessment, life cycle costing and water footprinting. He is currently the subject editor for Green Chemistry in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment and a member of the Editorial Board of Ecoinvent.
Stefano Merciai
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Stefano Merciai obtained a university degree in Statistics in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Economic Statistics in the 2010 both at University of Rome “Sapienza”. His main area of interest relates to Input-Output tables’ applications. In the Ph.D. thesis, he developed a methodology to analyse simultaneously physical and economic levels in order to address sustainability targets and scenarios. How to develop interdisciplinary tools is actually his main concern. Other areas of expertise regard economic analysis of agricultural market, development and implementation of computed general equilibrium models, drawing of questionnaires for surveys and interconnection of databases.
Miguel Astudillo
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Miguel Astudillo
Industrial engineer with a master in waste and resource management. Miguel obtained his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). In the Ph.D., he combined partial-equilibrium models of the energy sector with LCA to estimate the life-cycle impacts of energy transitions. His main areas of expertise are on LCA of energy services, agricultural products, and data science. He has previously worked on a variety of environments, from NGOs to academic institutions.
Angelica Mendoza Beltran
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Angelica Mendoza
M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology from Leiden University in 2008, she then joined the Climate, Air and Energy department at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). In 2013, she worked at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) of Leiden University, as an environmental sustainability researcher of the EU FP7 project Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture (IDREEM). Since, she has worked on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and uncertainty in LCA, topics in which she obtained her Ph.D. in 2018 from Leiden University. Between 2017 and 2018, she worked for Unilever, as a scientist giving sustainability insights to business projects. Her main areas of expertise are in LCA applications for instance to emerging technologies, inventory data collection, uncertainty in LCA, Integrated Assessment Models, prospective LCA, climate change and production and consumption systems analysis.
Annika Erjavec
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Annika Erjavec
B.Sc. in Biology from St. Francis Xavier University (Canada), and M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in 2019. Master thesis involved creating an LCA-based tool to calculate environmental impacts from household food consumption, and her main interest area is LCA in the food and agriculture sector including food waste and packaging. She worked at Aalborg University as a research assistant in 2020, and also has experience in a variety of environments including healthcare and recreation.
Jonas L. Eliassen
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Jonas Eliassen
B.Sc. in Techno-Anthropology and M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in 2021. Master thesis focused on evaluating and improving the internal LCA methodology within a streamlined carbon footprint calculator tool designed to assist Danish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with increased insight own emissions and to guide climate impact reduction initiatives. He has a strong focus on LCA and its application for properly guiding future challenging decision-making processes for various organisations, companies, and people. He has previously interned and worked in the sustainability department of a political organisation.
Bertram F. de Boer
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Bertram de Boer
Bertram F. de Boer is concluding his Industrial Ecology Ph.D. at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University (CML) and holds a M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence with a specialisation in Machine Learning and Policy Analysis. He collaborated on the PRINCE project to develop a repeatable methodology to monitor the environmental impacts of Swedish consumption and has worked on the JRC PYP-UPDATE project to update Supply, Use and Input-Output tables for the EU/EA. He also collaborated with IIASA. His work focuses on scenarios in static and dynamic environmental global economic models.
Valentin Starlinger
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Valentin Starlinger
B. Sc. in aerospace engineering from the University of Stuttgart. M. Sc. in ‘Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence’ from TU Munich in 2021 with a focus on computer vision and machine learning. In his master thesis ‘Life Cycle Assessments of Transportation Systems using Machine Learning’ he built a framework to assist the application of machine learning in the area of LCA. Currently, his main interest is in state-of-the-art data science and applying those techniques to LCA. In the past, he has worked on testing pulsed electric thrusters in plasma wind tunnels and building mobile robotic platforms.
Lara Serena
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Lara Serena
Lara is an environmental engineer from Santa Catarina State University (Brazil, 2016). Throughout her career, she has developed and managed environmental studies, including environmental impact reports and LCA. At 2.-0, she conducts LCAs and product portfolios assessments for the food, agriculture and energy sectors, such as for organic-vegan and dairy products, palm oil and photovoltaic systems. She develops specialized LCA tools in Excel, adapted to assess the carbon footprint of food products.
Karen-Emilie Trier Kreutzfeldt
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Karen-Emilie Trier
B.Sc. in City-, Energy- and Environmental Planning and M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in 2022. Karen-Emilie’s master thesis involved a comparative LCA between imported soybean meal from China, Danish fava beans and grass protein concentrate in order to improve the environmental performance in the organic agriculture. Her interest is LCAs in the food and agricultural sector, and how useful communication of LCAs can contribute to various decision-making processes. She previously worked in a R&D company within organic farming
and in an Impact Assessment department in a Danish Consultancy Company.
Erica Montemayor
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Erica Montemayor
Erica obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2022 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in collaboration with the Institute of Agri-food Research and Technology (IRTA) of the Government of Catalonia. She specialises in the advancement of life cycle inventory aspects and biodiversity impact modelling of organic agricultural systems. She also holds a M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary studies of economic, social and environmental sustainability from Autonomous University of Barcelona. With a passion for education, she’s an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, teaching life cycle assessment and its application to the agri-food sector.
Martí Rufí Salís
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Martí Rufí Salís
BSc in Environmental Sciences and MSc in Interdisciplinary Studies with a specialty in Urban and Industrial Ecology by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Martí Rufí Salís obtained his PhD in 2020 from Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) with a thesis on LCA of the application of circular strategies in innovative agricultural systems. Before joining 2.-0 LCA consultants, he was a postdoctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB, working on the environmental assessment of the City-Region Food System (CRFS), covering multiple steps of the food supply chain. During
his period in academia, he was involved in teaching LCA and in the
supervision of various bachelor, master and doctoral theses.
Freja Konradsen
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Freja Konradsen
B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering and M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in 2022. Through her master thesis, Freja investigated the rulesets and guidelines which environmental product declarations (EPDs) are developed based on, showcasing how disharmonisation and the use of both attributional and consequential LCA methodologies can influence EPD results. Freja has an interest in LCA within the building and infrastructure sector and has previously worked in a consulting company, focusing on developing EPDs and using
EPD data to assess the climate footprint of infrastructure projects.
Mathieu Delpierre
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Mathieu Delpierre
Mathieu Delpierre holds a double degree in M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences from Ecole Centrale Marseille (France, 2019) and M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology from Leiden University/TU Delft (The Netherlands, 2019). His Master thesis was on a prospective Life Cycle Assessment of renewable hydrogen production. Mathieu has previously worked as a hydrogen and solar sustainability expert at Fronius International GmbH, an Austrian-based photovoltaic inverter manufacturer; being involved in environmental assessment projects for PV-inverters, working with European associations such as SolarPower Europe and Hydrogen Europe, and contributing to varied sustainability corporate activities. Currently, his main interest lies in using LCA techniques to help stakeholders making better and more-informed decisions.
Philip Coenen
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Philip Coenen
M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science, B.Sc Techno-Anthropology and practical background in dairy farming as an educated farming assistant. Master thesis focused on the carbon footprint of dairy farms and how to estimate the potential carbon storage effect of biochar/pyrolysis. Furthermore, he has worked with N2O estimations from managed cropland in New York, biodiversity indicators on cropland in Denmark, and a LCA project of packaging solutions. He has a focus on farming practices, land use, and sustainable renewable energy production.
Simon Vemmelund
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Simon Vemmelund
B.Sc. in Forest and Landscape Engineering and M.Sc. in Climate Change from the University of Copenhagen in 2023. In his master’s thesis, he investigated LCA for use in decision-making, using wood pellets as a case study to compare the decision support capabilities of attributional and consequential LCA. Before joining LCA 2.-0 consultants he worked with GHG accounting, aimed at guiding the green transition for Danish production companies at Aarhus University.
Maddalen Ayala
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Maddalen Ayala
Maddalen holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of the Basque Country and an M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in 2018. She obtained her PhD in 2023 from Aalborg University, where her research focused on conducting a prospective LCA of a novel seaweed-based bioplastic. Before her PhD, she worked as a project manager in a small company. Her career has given her valuable experience in both private and public sectors, gained through different internships and work in various countries.
Peter Zacho Søgaard
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Peter Zacho Søgaard
Graduated M.A in political science and history from the university of Aarhus in 2009 – throughout his career Peter has worked with communicating political, environmental and social topics to a wider audience though SoMe, web, print and live events. He is equal parts academic and communications advisor, and sees a great challenge in bringing the knowledge and accomplishments hidden within the LCA 2.-0 organisation to the attention of our customers, partners and the general public.
Margarida Varandas
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Margarida Varandas
Margarida holds a double degree in M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from University of Porto (Portugal, 2019) and in M.Sc. in Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning, with focus on Cities and Sustainability from Aalborg University (Denmark, 2024). Her master’s thesis was focused on GHG emissions accounting for cities, using a Life Cycle approach, and has been gathering experience with LCA projects on dairy products, in the healthcare sector and in palm oil production. She is driven by creating a more sustainable world while finding the balance between the environment and people’s well-being.
Jonas Lindberg
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Jonas Lindberg
Jonas Christopher Lindberg is a dynamic professional with a robust academic background and a wealth of expertise in the realms of data science and software engineering. With a B.Sc. in Data Science and an M.Sc.Eng. in Software Engineering from Aalborg University. Jonas aims to support life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies through the application of his skills. With a collaborative approach and a commitment to continuous learning, Jonas is prepared to play a role in integrating data-driven approaches into environmental assessment processes.
Torben Poulsen
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Torben Poulsen
Torben Poulsen is an experienced accounting assistant.
He has a financial background from a danish trade school and has spent a lot of years performing general book keeping for various companies.
His goal is to make the financial part of 2.-0 LCA consultants as seamless and invisible as possible, and to use digital solutions wherever possible.
Mathilde Nilsson
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Mathilde Nilsson
B.Sc. in City-, Energy- and Environmental Planning and M.Sc. in Environmental Management and Sustainability Science from Aalborg University in 2022. Before joining 2.-0 LCA consultants, she worked on LCA at a construction consulting company.
Marco Mineri
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Marco Minieri
Marco is our company intern for the fall of 2024. He has a Bachelor degree in environmental engineering and is currently taking his masters degree in Environmental and Resources Management. Before joining 2.-0 LCA Consultants for his internship, he has worked for a GHG accounting consulting company in Italy