ETH Medal Awarded to Livia Cabernard for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
We are proud to announce that Dr. Livia Cabernard, an ISTP alumnus, has been honored with the prestigious ETH medal. This award is in recognition of her exceptional doctoral thesis presented at the recent doctoral awards ceremony.
The academic career of Dr. Livia Cabernard began at ETH Zurich. During her time at the ISTP and the Institute of Environmental Engineering, she delved into Environmental Sciences, honing her expertise and laying the groundwork for her future research endeavors. Her work combines supply chain analysis, life-cycle assessment, earth observation data, and integrated assessment models to create high-resolution models of global agri-food supply chains with comprehensive environmental impact assessment and scenario analysis. Through her research, she has been able to provide novel insights into the hotspots and levers in the global agri-food supply chains to provide sustainable decision support for industry and policy.
In her doctoral thesis, Creating Transparency in Global Value Chains and Their Environmental Impacts to Support Sustainability Policies, Dr. Cabernard provides an improved MRIO method and database for creating transparency in global value chains and their impacts to support sustainable policy-making. Under the guidance of Prof. Stefanie Hellweg, Prof. Stephan Pfister, and external pageProf. Thomas Wiedmann, Dr. Cabernard developed a method to measure environmental damage caused by industries worldwide. Her method helps track greenhouse gases and pollution across global supply chains and to see their broader effects.
We celebrate Dr. Cabernard's achievements and her ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability. Her work stands as a testament to the caliber of research fostered at ISTP and ETH Zurich, and we look forward to her continued contributions to science and policy for a sustainable future.
Dr. Cabernard has since taken on the role of professor at the Technical University of Munich at the Chair in Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agricultural Systems.