B. (Benjamin) Sprecher
B. (Benjamin) Sprecher
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Profiel
Benjamin Sprecher is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering with main research interests in sustainable design, quantification of environmental impacts, and industrial ecology. His current work explores how to quantification of environmental impacts can inform sustainable design, and how decisions at the product design level relate to system level concepts such as circular economy. His PhD and postdoc were forcussed on critical raw materials and supply chain resilience, and he remains working on these topics as well.
Academische achtergrond
Before becoming an assistant professor, he was an assistant professor at the Leiden University Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) where he also did his PhD, and in between a postdoc at the Yale University Center for Industrial Ecology.
Publicaties
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2024
Beyond flight operations
Assessing the environmental impact of aircraft maintenance through life cycle assessment
Antonia Rahn / Melissa Schuch / Kai Wicke / Benjamin Sprecher / Clemens Dransfeld / Gerko Wende -
2024
Interdependence in rare earth element supply between China and the United States helps stabilize global supply chains
Wei Chen / Matthew J. Eckelman / Benjamin Sprecher / Wei Chen / Peng Wang
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2024
Optimizing green and gray infrastructure planning for sustainable urban development
Janneke van Oorschot / Mike Slootweg / Roy P. Remme / Benjamin Sprecher / Ester van der Voet
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2024
Reassessing tin circularity and criticality
Jessie E. Bradley / Willem L. Auping / René Kleijn / Jan H. Kwakkel / Benjamin Sprecher
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2024
The convenience economy
Product flows and GHG emissions of returned apparel in the EU
Rotem Roichman / Benjamin Sprecher / Vered Blass / Tamar Meshulam / Tamar Makov -
Media
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2024-05-16
Critical Raw Materials 2024
Verscheen in: Innovation Origins
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2024-05-03
Kritieke grondstoffen
Verscheen in: TU Delft
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2023-07-25
NPO1 Vroeg! de strijd om grondstoffen
Verscheen in: NPO1
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2023-07-04
RTLZ tv interview on Chinese trade restrictions of critical raw materials
Verscheen in: RTLZ
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2023-06-12
Als de 504 niet start, fix ik het zelf
Verscheen in: NRC
Nevenwerkzaamheden
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2024-07-02 - 2026-07-02
Overige dienstverlening
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2024-07-02 - 2026-07-02
Advisering/onderzoek en overig