Core Team

Our team comprises world-leading experts in life cycle assessment and open-source development, dedicated to providing the global community with an open space for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and rapid execution.

Chris Mutel

Chris Mutel

President, Board Member

Chris created the Brightway open-source LCA framework. He brings extensive experience in life cycle assessment and open-source tool development. He is also the co-founder of Départ de Sentier and Cauldron.

Tomás Navarrete

Tomás Navarrete

Vice President, Board Member

Tomás has extensive experience in LCA software development and open-source tooling. He activetly contributes to the development of Brightway ecosystem, and is also the head of the Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis Group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) as well as the board member of the Bonsai initiative.

Karin Treyer

Karin Treyer

Board Member

Karin brings deep expertise in life cycle assessment of energy technologies, and is also a senior researcher in the laborortory of energy systems anslsysis at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

João Gonçalves

João Gonçalves

Board Member

João is an experienced expert in open-source software development. He used to lead the software engineering team at ecoinvent, and is also the co-founder of Cauldron.

Mélanie Douziech

Mélanie Douziech

Board Member

Mélanie is specialized in the LCA of agriculture and food sector, social LCA as well as the ecotoxity impact assesment. She is currently the head of the Life Cycle Assessment group at Agroscope.

Manuel Klarmann

Manuel Klarmann

Board Member

Manuel combines entrepreneurial experience with technical knowledge of LCA and sustainability assessment. He is the founder and CEO of Eaternity and brings expertise in food sustainability asseement, tool development and carbon footprinting

Xiaojin Zhang

Xiaojin Zhang

Director

Xiaojin brings deep expertise in conducting LCA in the energy and building sector using tools from the Brightway ecosystem. She is dedicated to advancing transparent, reproducible sustainability analysis through open-souce development and community collaboration. She is currently responsible for the daily operation of DdS.

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