The Sustainability of Chemicals and Materials research group investigates the sustainability of chemicals and materials over their entire life cycle. The mission of the team is to provide suitable methods, metrics, tools, and accurate sustainability assessments of materials to guide the transition from a fossil-based economy to a biobased economy and from a linear to a circular economy.
Our research group is part of the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM), which is an European, cross-border research institute focusing on the development of advanced biobased materials. We are part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering of Maastricht University, and are located on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen.
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23/04/2025
Sustainability Research and Education Now Live in the Newly Opened Research Computer Lab at Chemelot Campus
This week, we officially launched the Research Computer Lab with a workshop on data sources for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), held...
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02/04/2025
Velor Partners with Sustainability Expert Felicitas for In-Depth Life Cycle Analysis
The Limburg-based startup company Velor has the mission to rethink cycling wear. For this, Velor uses recycled materials and builds...
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27/03/2025
Innovation met Arts in Maastricht
For the 3rd year in a row, Maastricht Convention Bureau hosted an exclusive client event, bringing together a group of...
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06/03/2025
Post-doc vacancy in our group!
Prospective Sustainability Assessment for Sustainable Hydrogen Production We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to conduct a sustainability study of...
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29/01/2024
New PhD vacancy in our group!
👉 Are you passionate about breakthroughs in safe and sustainable chemistry by design?👉 Are you eager to delve into PhD...
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29/01/2024
Svetlana’s PhD defense
On the 21st of December, our colleague Svetlana Obydenkova defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Sustainability assessment of emerging multi-product lignocellulosic...
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