PhD projects

Title:
Sustainability assessment of circular agriculture by converting residues into novel economic, social and environmental opportunities

PhD student: Mias Sommer Schjønberg
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Co-supervisor: Benyamin Khoshnevisan
Expected to be finalised in October 2026

Title:
Business sector plastics circularity towards a climate neutral region

PhD student: Rasmus Paulsen Holm
Supervisor: Ciprian Cimpan
Co-supervisor: Kristin B. Munksgaard
Expected to be finalised in October 2026

Title:
Sustainability/techno-economic assessment of waste water treatment and nutrient recovery technologies

PhD student: Lilla Simon
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Co-supervisor: Benyamin Khoshnevisan & Sander Bruun
Expected to be finalised in September 2026

Title:

PhD student: Styrmir Gislason
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Co-supervisor: Alberto Maresca & Finn Udesen
Expected to be finalised in August 2024

Title:
Decoding the Food-Nutrition-Economy-Environment Nexus for Sustainable Food Systems

PhD student: Fengyin Xiong
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Expected to be finalised in October 2024

Title:
Green Transition of the healthcare sector in the Region of Southern Denmark

PhD student: Ofir Eriksen
Supervisor: Ciprian Cimpan
Co-supervisor: Morten Birkved & Søren Tollestrup Askegaard 
Expected to be finalised in April 2026

Title:
Pioneering Historical LCA - a Perspective on the Development of Personal Carbon Metabolism 1860-2020

PhD student: Simon Bruhn
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Co-supervisor: Ciprian Cimpan
Expected to be finalised in January 2025

Title:
The Material Constrain of the Energy and Climate Transition

PhD student: Simone Della Bella
Supervisor: Gang Liu
Expected to be finalised in March 2024

Title:
When Industrial Ecology Meets Statistics: Probabilistic Material Flow Analysis and Uncertainty Analysis for Metal Cycles

PhD student: Wensong Zhu
Supervisor: Ciprian Cimpan
Co-supervisor: Gang Liu & Wu Chen
Expected to be finalised in March 2024

Title:
End-of-Life Management and Circular Economy in Renewable Energy Transition

PhD student: Shangjun Ke
Supervisor: Gang Liu
Expected to be finalised in February 2024

Title:
Pathway Towards Environmental Sustainability and Economic Feasibility: Integrating Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA)

PhD student: Qiance Liu
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Co-supervisor:  Gang Liu & Wu Chen
Expected to be finalised in February 2024

Title:
Integrating Data Science in Industrial Ecology: Machine Learning and Remote Sensing Aided Characterization of Building Stocks for a Circular Economy

PhD student: Kun Sun
Supervisor: Ciprian Cimpan
Co-supervisor: Gang Liu & Wu Chen
Expected to be finalised in March 2024

Title:
Novel framework for decision support regarding sustainability of circular economy within the built environment (EMBRACER)

PhD student: Sarah Cecilie Andersen
Supervisor: Morten Birkved
Co-supervisor:  Stefania Butera, Harpa Birgisdottir & Lise Molander
Expected to be finalised in February 2024

Kasper Dalgas Rasmussen (2021)

Exploring the Resource Constraints of Renewable Energy Transition

Ruichang Mao (2021)

Revealing Patterns of Urban Built Environment Stocks Across and Within Cities: A Chinese Case Study

Wu Chen (2021)

Towards sustainable road transportation systems: fleet dynamics, resource constraints, and emission pathways

Anders Winther Mortensen (2021)

The Role and Feasibility of Electrofuels in the Future Renewable Energy System

Maud Lanau (2020)

The Weight of Cities and Implications on Dematerialisation and Decarbonisation Strategies

Keshav Parajuly (2017)

Circular Economy in E-waste Management: Resource Recovery and Design for End-of-Life

Ciprian Cimpan (2016)

AUTOSORT - Central Sorting in Municipal Solid Waste Management

Komal Habib (2015)

Critical Resources in Clean Energy Technologies and Waste Flows

Lorie Hamelin (2013)

Carbon Management and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Biomass in a Danish Renewable Energy Strategy