As a Senior Consultant at PRé, Ellen’s work includes conducting LCA studies, project management, teaching LCA and SimaPro training and providing support for SimaPro users, amongst other things. She has experience working with a wide range of companies, from small businesses to large multinationals, and her areas of expertise include eco-design, scenario analysis and training.
Before joining PRé, Ellen worked as a researcher at the Design & Innovation department of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Under the supervision of experts in product design and LCA, she focused on the possibilities of using LCA in the design process. She co-authored an article in a peer-reviewed journal and presented her work at several sustainability-related conferences.
Ellen has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the University of Twente (UT). During her studies, she focused on sustainable product development and eco-design. After graduating, she worked for PRé for three years before moving on to other endeavours. Now, she has returned to continue her work as a consultant.
Articles by Ellen Meijer
SimaPro Carbon footprint
Cariuma is always working on sustainability. A carbon footprint study of their sneakers gave valuable insights and allows them to confidently communicate with customers.
Blockchain energy use has no limits. How can we best allocate this energy use and the resulting environmental impacts? How should we consider miners, users, and investors?
Blockchain is a promising technology, but it uses enough electricity to power a medium-sized country. Why is that? Find out in our series about blockchain and its impacts.
Fast fashion puts pressure on production costs, which is bad for the environment, working conditions and product quality. To make a change, we need to challenge consumption.
To make LCA results count, it’s important to consider your audience. For example, when you select your impact assessment method.
To reach the UN SDGs by 2030, businesses must be able to get in on the work. Join us in developing a new LCA-based methodology to measure business contributions to the SDGs.
Eco-design and product development
For a bicycle manufacturer, PRé did a comparative LCA of three potential materials for bike frames, looking for the material with the lowest impact and hotspots for all materials.
LCA results can only be truly useful if your colleagues understand the importance and impact of your assessment. This article provides a few tips on how to help your company understand the results of a methodology as complex as LCA.
LCA is a quantitative, bottom-up sustainability tool. C2C is qualitative and top-down. LCA provides numbers; C2C provides stories. Often, it is thought that the two methods are incompatible. But is this really true? Or can they work together?
This series of articles discusses the steps in an LCA, each explained by an expert consultant. Today, Ellen Meijer talks about weighting - or applying a value judgement to impact categories - and the controversies associated with this.
The European Commission launched a pilot phase to develop environmental footprint (EF) rules for a series of industries. The second wave of PEF pilots just started, with 11 pilots of various product categories in the food and beverage industry.
PRé's technical consultant and SimaPro teacher, Ellen Meijer, shows you her five favorite tricks to help you become a SimaPro power user. These crucial features help you find errors, improve consistency, and make LCAs easier.
This SETAC conference is always an inspiring and educational event, with exciting sessions outlining recent impressive developments in environmental sciences and sustainability. PRé's technical analyst Ellen Meijer shares some of her highlights.
3D printing creates products without waste material or need for transport, storage, and packaging. An environmental production dream come true? How does it compare to standardized production methods such as injection molding?
How can you share your sustainability achievements in a trustworthy way and show your prospective customers that you have nothing to hide?