Bálint Simon

Life Cycle Assessment Expert at Mitsubishi Chemical Europe

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Do you deal with different problems in the sustainability assessment of products and human activities? Let’s connect! All types of sustainability (economic, environmental, or social) are important. Scaling and allocation issues of lab/pilot/industrial scale and of multi-output processes are of high interest in order to give the most objective advice for project partners. Main scopes are as follows: circular economy, chemical industry, economy-wide assessments, carbon-footprint, PEF.

Experience

  • Inhouse Consultant and Analyst at Mitsubishi Chemical Europe
    Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

    LCA-focused project aimed at developing a standardized and automated calculation framework that supports Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirements, integrates Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles, and enables efficient Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) exchange through interoperable data formats and APIs

  • Assistant Professor at RWTH Aachen University
    May 2019 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Understanding how changes in supply chains across the value chain of chemical and metal products influence environmental performance, with the aim of identifying effective strategies to mitigate the negative climate impacts associated with consumption.

  • Consultant at Institute for Energy and Environment, Heidelberg
    Apr 2016 - Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    - Industrial and public projects (oil and chemical industry) - Life Cycle Assessment - Diverse environmental footprints (e.g.: carbon footprint for B2B and B2C transactions - see more e.g. CDP), - EcoProfiles (European and GCC companies) - Material and Energy Flows (hot-spot analysis in the value chain of a product) - Plastic production (fossil vs. organic based) - Fine chemicals - Fuels on fossil and biological basis - Power to X technologies - Participation in acquisition process - Dissemination (Reports, Presentation, Client service).

  • Researcher at Helmholtz-zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
    Feb 2016 - Apr 2016 · 3 mos

    Environmental techno-economic analysis of alternative solutions for energy intensive production processes in order to fit to fluctuating energy supply from renewable resources.

  • Reasearch Associate (Postdoctoral fellow) at Université de Sherbrooke
    Feb 2015 - Jan 2016 · 1 yr

    - Sustainability assessment of novel materials (waste up-cycling, cleaner production, carbon footprint) in design phase from the idea (lab-scale) to large-scale applications (SimaPro Software). - Reporting and Cooperation with developers and industry in frame of ACI (American Concrete Institute). Dissemination (Reports, Presentation).