Amelie Müller, PhD researcher and a ForestPaths project partner, has been awarded the Stans Award for Best PhD Paper 2025 by the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University.

The award was given in recognition of her paper Time-explicit life cycle assessment: a flexible framework for coherent consideration of temporal dynamics. The paper addresses an important limitation of existing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods: their inability to adequately account for how systems change over time. To tackle this, the study developed a novel framework that introduces temporal dimensions into conventional LCA calculations, allowing for a more accurate assessment of complex, time-dependent processes. The framework is openly available through the Python package bw_timex.

Amelie Müller

The Stans Award has been awarded annually by CML since 1986, recognising exceptional contributions across three categories: best PhD paper, best student thesis, and best outreach.

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