Curriculum vitae

Reinout Heijungs is associate professor at the Department of Operations Analytics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Resume

After his graduation in 1987 in theoretical physics from Groningen University, he went to Leiden University, first as an assistant professor in physiological physics at the Medical Faculty, and next to the Institute of Environmental Sciences, as a researcher and assistant professor in environmental science. 

In 1997 he received his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis entitled Economic Drama and the Environmental Stage. After taking PhD, he spent a four-years research period at the Department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, but returned fully to Leiden University in 2002.

Since 2013, he is again with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as an associate professor in quantitative methods. A principle task is organizing and teaching classes in mathematics, statistics and sustainability for several BSc programmes.

So far, he has successfully supervised 8 PhD students, and authored/co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles as well as 5 books. He is or has been member of several editorial boards, review committees, organizing committees and PhD committees. He is research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, as well as member of the Beta Research School for Operations Management and Logistics.

Characteristic keywords, now or in the past, are (in alphabetical order): computational methods, data analysis, environmental footprints, human and environmental risk assessment, input-output analysis, life cycle assessment, linear algebra, mathematics, meta-analysis, non-linear dynamics, physical economics, scientific software development, statistics, substance flow analysis, thermodynamics.

He still has a small task at Leiden University, advising PhD students and others.

Education

• 1975-1981: High school (VWO), Deventer

• 1980-1982: Violin and viola (preparatory class), Conservatory of Zwolle

• 1982-1987: Physics (specialisation theoretical physics), University of Groningen

Degrees

• 1987: MSc Physics, University of Groningen

• 1987: Teaching license in physics (high school), University of Groningen

• 1997: PhD Mathematics and Science (cum laude), Leiden University (Thesis Economic drama and the environmental stage defended at 3 September 1997)

• 2013: Basic teaching qualification (BKO), Leiden University

• 2018: Senior teaching qualification (SKO), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• 2018: Ius promovendi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Work

• 1988-1990: Assistant professor, Laboratory of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Leiden University

• 1991-2013: Assistant professor/researcher, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Leiden University

• 1997-2001: Researcher, Department of Spatial Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• 2013-2020: Associate professor, Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• 2020-present: Associate professor, Department of Operations Analytics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• 2013-present: Guest researcher, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Leiden University

Memberships (past and present)

• Editorial board of scientific journals:

  • Carbon Footprints

  • Frontiers in Sustainability

  • Journal of Cleaner Production

  • Journal of Industrial Ecology

  • Sustainability

  • The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

• Research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute

• Member of the Beta Research School for Operations Management and Logistics

• Advisory boards:

  • European Platform on LCA

  • ecoinvent

  • Technical Review Committee (chair) of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

  • The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (Commissie voor de m.e.r.)

  • Sustainable Apparel Coalition

  • Novo Nordisk Foundation

  • SOSFood

  • Many national research foundations (e.g., of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, UAE)

• Education committees:

  • MSc programme Industrial Ecology

  • BSc Economics & Business Economics (chair)

  • Accreditation committee for NVAO

• Management of university institutes:

  • Chair of the Institute's Council of the Institute of Environmental Sciences

  • Member of the management team of the Department of Econometrics & Operations Research

• Review committees of several funding organizations (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, EU, Finland, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland)

• PhD committees of

  • Remke Bras-Klapwijk (Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, 1998)

  • Jyri Seppälä (Helsinki University of Technology, 2003)

  • Claudine Basset-Mens (École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Rennes, Rennes, 2005)

  • Monika Goikoetxea Larruskain (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, 2006)

  • Anne Hollander (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 2008)

  • Brigitte Langevin (École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Metiérs, Paris, 2010)

  • Rosalie van Zelm (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 2011)

  • Wataru Machida (Venice International University, Venice, 2011)

  • Alessandra Zamagni (Università G. d'Annunzio, Pescara, 2012)

  • Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre (Mines ParisTech, Sophia-Antipolis, 2012)

  • Steven De Meester (Ghent University, Ghent, 2013)

  • Johannes Jung (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, 2013)

  • Yi Yang (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015)

  • Gustav Sandin (Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 2015)

  • Robin Harder (Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 2015)

  • Dirk Inghels (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2016)

  • Oliver Schwab (TU Wien, Vienna, 2016)

  • Nađa Džubur (TU Wien, Vienna, 2017)

  • Murray Hall (University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2017)

  • Yuan Rong (Leiden University, Leiden, 2018)

  • Oliver Cencic (TU Wien, Vienna, 2018)

  • Antoine Esnouf (SupAgro, Montpellier, 2018)

  • Angelica Mendoza Beltrán (Leiden University, Leiden, 2018)

  • Juan Wang (Leiden University, Leiden, 2019)

  • Joshua Sohn (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, 2021)

  • Paul Baustert (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 2021)

  • Piya Kerdlap (National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2021)

  • Zhengxing Zou (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2021)

  • Elizabeth Migoni Alejandre (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, 2023)

  • Gustavo Larrea Gallegos (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2023)

• Organizing committee/session chair/short courses

  • International Conference on Eco-efficiency (Egmond aan Zee, 2011)

  • International Input-Output Association (Alexandria, 2010)

  • Society for Industrial Ecology (Leiden, 2001; Lisbon, 2009)

  • Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Warsaw, 2008; Göteborg, 2009; Milan, 2010; Seville, 2011; Göteborg, 2024)

  • International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (Guimarães, 2014; Trieste, 2017)

  • The International Conference on EcoBalance (Kyoto, 2016; Tokyo 2018; Fukuoka 2022)

  • International Conference Series on Life Cycle Assessment (Jakarta 2018)

Invited lectures (selection)

• Delft University of Technology, Delft

• EPFL, Lausanne

• ETH, Zürich

• Imperial College, London

• Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen

• Technische Universität Wien, Vienna

• University of California, Santa Barbara

• University of Sichuan, Chengdu

• Wageningen University Research, Wageningen

• Yale University, New Haven

PhD students supervised or co-supervised

• Wenjie Liao (Thesis (A thermodynamic perspective on technologies in the Anthropocene: Analyzing environmental sustainability) defended at Leiden University, Leiden, 3 July 2012)

• Stefano Cucurachi (Thesis (Impact assessment modelling of matter-less stressors in the context of life cycle assessment) defended at Leiden University, Leiden, 21 October 2014)

• Edi Wiloso (Thesis (Development of life cycle assessment for residue-based bioenergy) defended at Leiden University, Leiden, 29 October 2015)

• Patrik Henriksson (Thesis (Evaluating European imports of Asian aquaculture products using statistically supported life cycle assessments) defended at Leiden University, Leiden, 12 November 2015)

• Kai Fang (Thesis (Environmental footprints: assessing anthropogenic effects on the planet's environment) defended at Leiden University, Leiden, 24 November 2015)

• Evelyne Groen (Thesis (An uncertain climate: the value of sensitivity analysis in environmental impact assessment of food) defended at Wageningen University, Wageningen, 10 May 2016)

• Michiel Zijp (Thesis (Developing solution-focused sustainability assessments) defended at Radboud University, Nijmegen, 3 July 2017)

• Arjan de Koning (Thesis (Creating global scenarios of environmental impacts with structural economic models) defended at Leiden University, Leiden, 8 May 2018)

• Selin Hülagü (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

• Rosalie Hagenaars (Leiden University)

Awards

• Cum laude graduation for PhD (1997)

• Author of best publication of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University (1997)

• Supervisor of best student thesis of Leiden University (2012)

• Co-author of best publication of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University (2012)

• Co-author of Graedel prize winning article (2014)

• Co-author of best presentation at the conference Modeling and Sustainability of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2015)

• Co-author of best publication of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University (2015)

• Co-author of two papers that received Awards of the International Life Cycle Academy (2017)

• Co-author of best publication of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University (2017)

• Most Downloaded Paper Award for the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling (2020)

• Research Award for best paper, Kuwait University (2021)

Publications

A full list of my publications is here.

I authored/co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books at scientific publishers. Please refer to the dedicated page on my books.

Various research portals can be used to access my work, or to obtain lists of my achievements:

• Google Scholar

• Loop (my ID is 830792)

• Mendeley

• NARCIS/KNAW (my Digitial Author Identifier (DAI) is info:eu-repo/dai/nl/106591746, my International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is 0000 0000 6309 2812)

• ORCID (my ID is 0000-0002-0724-5962)

• Publons

• ResearcherID (my ID is K-7855-2013)

• ResearchGate

• SciProfiles (my ID is 177036)

• Scopus (my ID is 6701339422)

• ScholarGPS (my ID is 99982761316932)

• Social Science Research Network (my ID is 328353)

• VU research portal

• World's Top 2% Scientists Network

My h-index (by April 2024) is:

• 53 at Web of Science

• 57 at Scopus

• 72 at ResearchGate

• 84 at Google Scholar

It clearly depends on how you count.

My Erdős number is at most 4, thanks to publications with Luciano Pietronero.

I have scientific papers in:

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

• Applied Energy

• Biofuel Research Journal

• Biological Conservation

• Biomass and Bioenergy

• Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering

• Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

• Chemosphere

• Computers & Industrial Engineering

• Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

• Ecological Economics

• Ecological Indicators

• Ecological Modelling

• Economic Systems Research

• Energies

• Energy

• Entropy

• Environmental Impact Assessment Review

• Environmental Management

• Environmental Management and Health

• Environmental Modeling & Assessment

• Environmental Modelling & Software

• Environmental Science & Policy

• Environmental Science & Pollution Research

• Environmental Science & Technology

• Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

• Foundations

• Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Frontiers in Pharmacology

• Frontiers in Plant Science

• Frontiers in Sustainability (also member of the Editorial Board)

• Global Food Security

• Green Chemistry

• Greener Management International

• Heliyon

• Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

• Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

• International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (also past member of the Editorial Board)

• International Jorunal of Molecular Sciences

• Journal of Cleaner Production (also member of the Editorial Board)

• Journal of Economic Structures

• Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management

• Journal of Environmental Management

• Journal of Industrial Ecology (also member of the Editorial Board)

• Journal of the Operational Research Society

• Landscape and Urban Planning

• Macromolecular Reaction Engineering

• Mediterranean Botany

• Nordic Journal of Botany

• Nature Nanotechnology

• Physica A

• Physical Review B

• Polymer Degradation and Stability

• PLoS One

• 地理科学进展 (Progress in Geography)

• Renewable Energy

• Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews

• Resources, Conservation and Recycling

• Revue de Métallurgie

• Risk Analysis

• Science of the Total Environment

• Scientia Horticulturae

• Social Indicators Research

• Sustainability (also member of the Editorial Board)

• Sustainable Production and Consumption

• The Anthropocene Review

• The Lancet Planetary Health

• Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

• Waste Management

I have books and book chapters in books at

• CRC Press

• Delft University Press/VSSD

• Edward Elgar

• FrancoAngeli

• John Wiley & Sons/Scrivener

• Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers/Samsom H.D. Tjeenk Willink

• Reed Business/Elsevier Bedrijfsinformatie

• SETAC