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SETAC Europe Council

Walter Klöpffer

Professional Details

Country: Germany
Affiliation: Business
Institute/ Organisation: LCA Consult & Review
Position: Consultant
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Career

Born and educated in Graz , Austria, Walter Klöpffer spent most of his professional life at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt/M. His main fields of research were in the first years the spectroscopy and photopysics of aromatic polymers and monomeric model compounds. After this period he switched to the study of environmental processes of chemicals and the assessment of chemicals. Since 1975 he has also been a professor for physical chemistry at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz. In 1995, three years after joining C.A.U. GmbH, he was appointed as the editor-in-chief of the newly founded „International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment“. The renewed international interest in persistent organic pollutants (POPs) induced a revival of older work on exposure modelling and, more general, in applying the precautionary principle to the assessment of organic chemicals. Retired recently from C.A.U., he is now a consultant for Life Cycle Assessment and POPs and continues to be editor and professor.

SETAC Involvement

Member of the LCA-Steering Committee of SETAC-Europe 1992-93; as such involved in the preparation of the SETAC-Europe Annual Meeting in Potsdam (1992), the SETAC World Congress in Lisbon (1993) and the Sesimbra Workshop (SETAC LCA-Guidelines "A code of Pratice" 1993).
Preparation of a Section of the programme of the Annual Meeting in Leipzig (1999), together with Prof. Hungerbühler, ETH.
Member of the 2 nd SETAC-Europe working group on Life Cycle Impact Assessment (1998-2001) and co-editor of the "WIA-2" book, SETAC Press 2002.
Member of the SETAC-Europe Council since May, 2003 as a substitute. Elected member since April 2004.