Research

My research develops environmental evidence for decisions that involve technical performance, clinical value, cost, equity, and implementation feasibility. The work is grounded in life cycle assessment and industrial ecology, with applications in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, facility systems, and resource-constrained infrastructure.

Research Themes

Care pathway sustainability

At Erasmus Medical Center (Erasmus University Rotterdam), I work on modular environmental assessment of clinical care pathways. The methodological goal is to represent care delivery as linked modules, including diagnostics, imaging, medication, procedures, anesthesia, inpatient care, sterilization, waste management, travel, and follow-up care. This structure supports hotspot analysis and scenario comparison at a scale that is meaningful for clinicians, procurement teams, facility operators, and health-system decision-makers.

Sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing

My pharmaceutical research evaluates process routes, solvent use, energy demand, waste generation, cost, and environmental KPIs across lab, pilot, and industrial scales. Recent work includes sustainable API synthesis, green chemistry strategy, machine-learning-supported impact factors, and LCA-LCC frameworks for greener process development.

Medical devices and clinical consumables

I assess design and reuse options for medical devices and clinical consumables, including microfluidic devices, surgical instruments, ICU supplies, disinfection workflows, packaging, logistics, and end-of-life management. This work focuses on realistic implementation constraints, not only product-level environmental comparisons.

Low-carbon facilities and industrial ecology

Beyond healthcare, I work on cleanroom energy systems, carbon management, renewable infrastructure, wastewater systems, circular manufacturing, and environmental forecasting. These projects connect prospective LCA with future energy mixes, resource constraints, operational reliability, and policy pathways.

Methodological Contribution

My methodological work combines prospective and dynamic LCA, life cycle costing, techno-economic assessment, Scope 1 to 3 carbon accounting, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, scenario modelling, contribution analysis, and machine-learning-supported environmental modelling. I use these methods to build decision-support evidence that can survive scrutiny from technical experts and remain usable for non-LCA decision makers.

Research Positioning

Sustainable healthcare is the current anchor because it integrates several difficult assessment problems: clinical effectiveness, operational complexity, procurement systems, patient and staff travel, waste, infection prevention, cost, equity, and implementation feasibility. The broader theoretical contribution is a decision-oriented form of LCA that connects product-level, facility-level, and pathway-level evidence.