Dr. Andrea Thorenz

Senior Researcher, Head of Resource Lab
Institute of Materials Resource Management
Phone: +49 821 598-3948
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Room: 2210 (I)
Address: Universitätsstraße 12, 86159 Augsburg

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2024

    Elected member in the Board of Directors at the Center of Climate Resilience

  • Since 2023
    Senior academic councillor at the Institute for Materials Resource Management at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology of the University of Augsburg

  • Since 2020
    Member of the Center for Climate Resilience (ZfK) at the University of Augsburg
  • Since 2019
    Guest Editor of the journal "Resources"
  • 2018-2020
    Participation in the Task Force Natural Resources of the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
  • 2017/2019
    Research fellowships at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Center for Hawaiian Studies in Honolulu, USA
  • Since 2017
    Member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)
  • 2017-2019
    Participation in the "International Round Table on Materials Criticality" (IRTC) of the ESM Foundation, sponsored by EIT Raw Materials
  • Since 2012
    Head of the interdisciplinary research group Resource Lab at the Institute of Materials Resource Management (MRM), University of Augsburg, Germany
  • 2011-2023
    Academic Councillor at the Institute for Materials Resource Management at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology of the University of Augsburg
  • 2009-2011
    Research Associate at the Chair of Resource Strategy at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology of the University of Augsburg
  • 2001-2009
    Project and study management at the beta Institut für angewandtes Gesundheitsmanagement gGmbH, Augsburg
  • 2006
    Doctorate at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Augsburg on quantitative social research with the topic: "Case management for the optimization of cross-sectoral care in the health care system. An empirical study of the care of women with breast carcinoma by the mammaNetz".
  • 1994-2001
    Event marketing and press relations, most recently as press spokeswoman for the Handelskrankenkasse (hkk), Bremen
  • 1993
    Research stay at the Ehwa Womans University in Seoul, South Korea

Research foci

  • Industrial Ecology
  • Economic, environmental and social assessment of metal resources as well as renewables
  • Waste and Environmental Management
  • Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA)
  • Dissipative losses of metals

Publications

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2007

2024

Benjamin Achzet, Denise Ott, Rica Fleiner, Marvin Gornik, Andrea Thorenz und Christoph Helbig
How sustainability can get a competitive advantage: state of the art for stationary battery storage systems

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Lukas Meßmann, Sandra Köhler, Katerina Antimisaris, Ricarda Fieber, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Indicator-based environmental and social sustainability assessment of hospitals: a literature review

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Martin Bruckler, Lars Wietschel, Lukas Messmann, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Review of metrics to assess resilience capacities and actions for supply chain resilience

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2023

Lukas Messmann, Lars Wietschel, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: the case of bioethanol production in the EU

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Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Kawena Elkington, Pua Souza, Axel Tuma, Andrea Thorenz, Sandra Köhler, Kānekoa Kukea-Shultz, Keliʻi Kotubetey und Kawika Winter
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals

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Lars Wietschel, Florian Halter, Andrea Thorenz, Denny Schüppel und Dietmar Koch
Literature review on the state of the art of the circular economy of Ceramic Matrix Composites

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Amelie Michalke, Sandra Köhler, Lukas Meßmann, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Tobias Gaugler
True cost accounting of organic and conventional food production

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Maic Verbücheln, Viktor Klein, Stephanie Lizak, Felix Assies, Sandra Köhler, Andrea Thorenz, Stefan Hanstein, Malte Vogelgesang, Irina Mostovenko und Michael Schweizer
Vermeidung, Substitution und nachhaltige Kreislaufwirtschaft von Kunststoffen: das Projekt „reGIOcycle“ – 1. Teil Forschungsphase (2020–2023)

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2022

Christoph Helbig, Jonas Huether, Charlotte Joachimsthaler, Christian Lehmann, Simone Raatz, Andrea Thorenz, Martin Faulstich und Axel Tuma
A terminology for downcycling

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Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Andreas Rathgeber
Commodity Markets und Ressourcenmanagement [Editorial]

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Andrea Thorenz und Armin Reller (Hrsg.)
Economic, environmental, and social assessments of raw materials for a green and resilient economy

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Economic, Environmental, and Social Assessments of Raw Materials for a Green and Resilient Economy that was published in Resources

Denny Schüppel, Florian Halter, T. Schneider, Lars Wietschel, Andrea Thorenz, Alex Tuma und Dietmar Koch
Green carbon / carbon with CVI – possible or not?

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Alexandre Charpentier Poncelet, Christoph Helbig, Philippe Loubet, Antoine Beylot, Stéphanie Muller, Jacques Villeneuve, Bertrand Laratte, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Guido Sonnemann
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy

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Alexandre Charpentier Poncelet, Philippe Loubet, Christoph Helbig, Antoine Beylot, Stéphanie Muller, Jacques Villeneuve, Bertrand Laratte, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Guido Sonnemann
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets

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Tobias Schneider, Lars Wietschel, Denny Schüppel, Jonas Riesner, Kevin Konrad, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Dietmar Koch
Multicriteria optimization as enabler for Sustainable Ceramic Matrix Composites

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2021

Christoph Helbig, Martin Bruckler, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
An overview of indicator choice and normalization in raw material supply risk assessments

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Sandra Boldoczki, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Does increased circularity lead to environmental sustainability? The case of washing machine reuse in Germany

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Lars Wietschel, Lukas Meßmann, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU: an integrated supply chain network optimization and life cycle assessment approach

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Corrigendum published at https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13255

Alexandre Charpentier Poncelet, Christoph Helbig, Philippe Loubet, Antoine Beylot, Stéphanie Muller, Jacques Villeneuve, Bertrand Laratte, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Guido Sonnemann
Life cycle impact assessment methods for estimating the impacts of dissipative flows of metals

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Aitor Barrio, Fernando Burgoa Francisco, Andrea Leoncini, Lars Wietschel und Andrea Thorenz
Life cycle sustainability assessment of a novel bio-based multilayer panel for construction applications

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Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Axel Tuma, Andrea Thorenz, Sandra Boldoczki, Keliʻiahonui Kotubetey, Kanekoa Kukea-Shultz und Kawena Elkington
Reflections on sustainability concepts: aloha ʻāina and the circular economy

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2020

Dieuwertje Schrijvers, Alessandra Hool, Gian Andrea Blengini, Wei-Qiang Chen, Jo Dewulf, Roderick Eggert, Layla van Ellen, Roland Gauss, James Goddin, Komal Habib, Christian Hagelüken, Atsufumi Hirohata, Margarethe Hofmann-Amtenbrink, Jan Kosmol, Maïté Le Gleuher, Milan Grohol, Anthony Ku, Min-Ha Lee, Gang Liu, Keisuke Nansei, Philip Nuss, David Peck, Armin Reller, Guido Sonnemann, Luis Tercero, Andrea Thorenz und Patrick A. Wäger
A review of methods and data to determin raw material criticality

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Jair Santillán‐Saldivar, Tobias Gaugler, Christoph Helbig, Andreas W. Rathgeber, Guido Sonnemann, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Design of an endpoint indicator for mineral resource supply risks in life cycle sustainability assessment: the case of Li‐ion batteries

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Lukas Meßmann, Victoria Zender, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
How to quantify social impacts in strategic supply chain optimization: state of the art

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Christoph Helbig, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Quantitative assessment of dissipative losses of 18 metals

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Christoph Helbig, Alex M. Bradshaw, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Supply risk considerations for the elements in nickel-based superalloys

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Sandra Boldoczki, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
The environmental impacts of preparation for reuse: a case study of WEEE reuse in Germany

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2019

Lukas Meßmann, Christoph Helbig, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Economic and environmental benefits of recovery networks for WEEE in Europe

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Lukas Meßmann, Sandra Boldoczki, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Potentials of preparation for reuse: a case study at collection points in the German state of Bavaria

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Alexander Cimprich, Vanessa Bach, Christoph Helbig, Andrea Thorenz, Dieuwertje Schrijvers, Guido Sonnemann, Steven B. Young, Thomas Sonderegger und Markus Berger
Raw material criticality assessment as a complement to environmental life cycle assessment: examining methods for product-level supply risk assessment

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Lars Wietschel, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Spatially explicit forecast of feedstock potentials for second generation bioconversion industry from the EU agricultural sector until the year 2030

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2018

Christoph Kolotzek, Christoph Helbig, Andrea Thorenz, Armin Reller und Axel Tuma
A company-oriented model for the assessment of raw material supply risks, environmental impact and social implications

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Andrea Thorenz, Lars Wietschel, Dennis Stindt und Axel Tuma
Assessment of agroforestry residue potentials for the bioeconomy in the European Union

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Christoph Helbig, Alex M. Bradshaw, Lars Wietschel, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Supply risks associated with lithium-ion battery materials

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Corrigendum published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.062

Petra Hutner, Christoph Helbig, Dennis Stindt, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Transdisciplinary development of a life cycle-based approach to measure and communicate waste prevention effects in local authorities

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2017

Christoph Helbig, Christoph Kolotzek, Andrea Thorenz, Armin Reller, Axel Tuma, Mario Schafnitzel und Stephan Krohns
Benefits of resource strategy for sustainable materials research and development

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Christiane Bleich, Cathrin Büscher, Hanne Melchior, Anna Grochocka, Andrea Thorenz, Holger Schulz, Uwe Koch und Birgit Watzke
Effectiveness of case management as a cross-sectoral healthcare provision for women with breast cancer

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Alexander Cimprich, Steven B. Young, Christoph Helbig, Eskinder D. Gemechu, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Guido Sonnemann
Extension of geopolitical supply risk methodology: characterization model applied to conventional and electric vehicles

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Petra Hutner, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Waste prevention in communities: a comprehensive survey analyzing status quo, potentials, barriers and measures

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2016

Christoph Helbig, Eskinder D. Gemechu, Baptiste Pillain, Steven B. Young, Andrea Thorenz, Axel Tuma und Guido Sonnemann
Extending the geopolitical supply risk indicator: application of life cycle sustainability assessment to the petrochemical supply chain of polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibers

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Christoph Helbig, Lars Wietschel, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
How to evaluate raw material vulnerability - an overview

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Eskinder D. Gemechu, Christoph Helbig, Guido Sonnemann, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Import-based indicator for the geopolitical supply risk of raw materials in life cycle sustainability assessments

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Petra Hutner und Axel Tuma
Leitfaden zur Erstellung kommunaler Abfallvermeidungskonzepte

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Christoph Helbig, Alex M. Bradshaw, Christoph Kolotzek, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Supply risks associated with CdTe and CIGS thin-film photovoltaics

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2015

Stefan Bensch, Christoph Kolotzek, Christoph Helbig, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Decision support system for the sustainability assessment of critical raw materials in SMEs

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2014

Petra Hutner, Andrea Thorenz und Axel Tuma
Kommunale Abfallvermeidungskonzepte - eine Studie zur Potentialanalyse und Bewertung von Abfallvermeidungsmaßnahmen

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Axel Tuma, Armin Reller, Andrea Thorenz, Christoph Kolotzek und Christoph Helbig
Nachhaltige Ressourcenstrategien in Unternehmen: Identifikation kritischer Rohstoffe und Erarbeitung von Handlungsempfehlungen zur Umsetzung einer ressourceneffizienten Produktion

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Aktenzeichen 30438/01

F. Böttcher und Andrea Thorenz
Seltene Metalle – Ressourcenschonung durch Innovationen in Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken

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Aktenzeichen 29327/01

Leena Grandell und Andrea Thorenz
Silver supply risk analysis for the solar sector

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2013

Andrea Thorenz
Platin in der Medizin: Vom Rohstoff zum Wirkstoff zum Schadstoff

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Andrea Thorenz
Ressourcenmanagement aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht

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Hanne Melchior, Cathrin Büscher, Andrea Thorenz, Anna Grochocka, Uwe Koch und Birgit Watzke
Self-efficacy and fear of cancer progression during the year following diagnosis of breast cancer

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2012

C. Büscher, Andrea Thorenz, Anna Grochocka, U. Koch und B. Watzke
Die Case-Management-basierte Betreuung von Brustkrebspatientinnen: Ergebnisse einer Befragung beteiligter ärztlicher und nichtärztlicher Netzwerkpartner

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2011

C. Büscher, Andrea Thorenz, Anna Grochocka, U. Koch und B. Watzke
Die Case-Management-basierte Betreuung von Brustkrebspatientinnen: Ergebnisse einer Befragung beteiligter ärztlicher und nichtärztlicher Netzwerkpartner

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Andrea Thorenz und Armin Reller
Discussion of risks of platinum resources based on a function orientated criticality assessment - shown by cytostatic drugs and automotive catalytic converters

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Cathrin Büscher und Birgit Watzke
Verbundprojekt: Case Management in der sektorenübergreifenden Versorgung von Frauen mit Brustkrebs: Effektivität und Effizienz eines optimierten Patientenpfades in einer Modellregion für angewandtes Gesundheitsmanagement - Projektteil Hamburg (externe Evaluation): Schlussbericht - externe Evaluation; Laufzeit des Vorhabens: 01.08.2006 - 30.09.2010

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Förderkennzeichen BMBF 01ZP0602, Verbund-Nr. 01050951

2010

Andrea Thorenz, Cathrin Büscher, Anna Grochocka und Birgit Watzke
Case-Management-Begleitung von Brustkrebspatientinnen: Ergebnisse zur Zufriedenheit von Patientinnen und Case Managerinnen

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2007

Andrea Thorenz
Case Management zur Optimierung der sektorenübergreifenden Versorgung im Gesundheitswesen: eine empirische Studie der Versorgung von Frauen mit Mammakarzinom durch das mammaNetz

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Zugl.: Augsburg, Univ., Diss., 2006

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