Niels Jungbluth has served as Chief Executive Officer at ESU-services, a sustainability consulting firm, since 2012. His main working areas are food, biomass, energy systems, input-output-analysis and sustainable consumption. He is responsible for the SimaPro centre and the data-on-demand service of ESU. He is in the editorial board of the “Int. Journal of LCA” and works as a reviewer for several other scientific journals. He works as a special expert for several organisations e.g. Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC, CEN TC 383 standard (GHG accounting on biofuels), UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative, Swiss law on tax exemption for biofuels.
Between 1996 and 2000 he worked on a Ph.D. project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His Ph. D. thesis on the environmental consequences of food consumption has been awarded with the Greenhirn Price 2000 by the German Öko-Institut.