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Academic degree:Dr. Sc. Rolf Frischknecht
Last name:Frischknecht 
First name:Rolf 
Responsible for: 
Organization/Institute:ESU-services Ltd. 
Department: 
Position:Managing Partner 
Street, Number, POB:Kanzleistrasse 4 
Postal code, City:CH-8610 Uster 
State: 
Country:Switzerland 
Phone:+41 44 940 61 91 
Fax:+41 44 940 61 94 
E-mail address:frischknecht@esu-services.ch 
Url:http://www.esu-services.ch 
Curriculum vitae:Position:
managing partner of ESU-services Ltd., a consulting company in the fields of LCA and MFA

manager of the ecoinvent Centre, Empa

Education:
Ph.D. on decision-supporting Life Cycle Inventory Methodology, ETH Zürich (1998)

Postgraduate studies on energy, Fachhochschule beider Basel, Muttenz (1990)

Dipl. Bau-Ing. ETH with emphasis on structural and hydraulic engineering, ETH Zürich (1986)

Fields of Activities:
Experiences:
Environmental management consultancies based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA);
Research in the field of LCA;
Training courses in LCA and in the ecoinvent data and database;
Peer Review of LCA studies and Papers;
Peer Reviews of papers submitted to the International Journal of LCA, the Journal for Cleaner Production, the journal of industrial ecology and the Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Professional Affiliations:
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry(SETAC)
Swiss Association of environmentally sound management (öbu)
Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA)
Association of German Engineers (VDI)

 
Areas of interest:
material flow analysis 
energy 
informatics, environmental 
life cycle assessment 
Data formats and data base designs 
 
Articles:
12 LCA_Special (1) 7-17 (2007), The Environmental Relevance of Capital Goods in Life Cycle Assessments of Products and Services (11 pp)
12 LCA (3) 181-190 (2007), Applying Cumulative Exergy Demand (CExD) Indicators to the ecoinvent Database (10 pp)
11 LCA_Special (1) 40-48 (2006), Notions on the Design and Use of an Ideal Regional or Global LCA Database
10 LCA (3) 166-167 (2005), The ecoinvent Database - Reply to the Letter to the Editor of Schmidt & Jensen [Int J LCA 10 (2) 97]
11 LCA (4) 265-276 (2006), Life Cycle Assessment of the Mobile Communication System UMTS: Towards Eco-efficient Systems (12 pp)
10 LCA (1) 1-2 (2005), ecoinvent Data v1.1 (2004): From heterogenous databases to unified and transparent LCI data
10 LCA (1) 24-34 (2005), Life Cycle Assessment for Emerging Technologies: Case Studies for Photovoltaic and Wind Power (11 pp)
10 LCA (1) 3-9 (2005), The ecoinvent Database: Overview and Methodological Framework (7 pp)
10 LCA (4) 248-254 (2005), Representing Statistical Distributions for Uncertain Parameters in LCA. Relationships between mathematical forms, their representation in EcoSpold, and their representation in CMLCA (7 pp)
9 LCA (5) 339-341 (2004), 22nd Discussion Forum on LCA: Evaluation of Long-term Impacts in LCA
9 LCA (4) 211-213 (2004), Transparency in LCA – a heretical request?
7 LCA (3) 184 (2002), Environmental Labelling of Green Electricity with LCA Key Parameter Models
7 LCA (5) 14A (2002), ecoinvent centre: The Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories goes online with a test database
6 LCA (4) 192-198 (2001), Guidelines for Consistent Reporting of Exchanges from/to Nature within Life Cycle Inventories (LCI)
2 ERNO (1) 53-55 (2001), Analysemethoden für die ökologischen Folgen des Nahrungsmittelkonsums
4 LCA (1) 57-59 (1999), New Results in LCA Research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
5 LCA (2) 85-95 (2000), Allocation in Life Cycle Inventory Analysis for Joint Production
4 LCA (3) 175-179 (1999), Presentation and Introduction
3 LCA (5) 266-272 (1998), Einstein´s Lessons for Energy Accounting in LCA
3 LCA (6) 321-332 (1998), A Special View on the Nature of the Allocation Problem
 
 

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