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John Laurence Esguerra

Assistant Professor

Environmental and techno-economic assessments of emerging technologies and systems
Material Flow Analysis | Life Cycle Assessment | Life Cycle Costing | Sensitivity Analysis

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2022  PhD in Sustainable Systems, Linköping University

2021   PhD in Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium

2016  MSc in Industrial Ecology, Leiden University, Netherlands; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands;  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2012  BSc in Chemistry, University of the Philippines

Work

2024- Assistant Professor, Linköping University

2022-24  Postdoctoral Researcher, Linköping University

2016-22  Teaching Assistant, Linköping University

2012-14  Teaching Assistant, University of the Philippines

Scholarships and Grants

2024-2028 Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg

2024 - IEI SEED Funding

2022 - IEI International Collaboration Grant

2016-20 EU Marie Curie PhD Scholarship

2014-16 EU Erasmus Mundus MSc Scholarship

 

Publications

Cover of publication 'Developing strategies for improved economic performance and reduced climate impact of landfill mining in Europe'
John Laurence Esguerra (2021)
Developing strategies for improved economic performance and reduced climate impact of landfill mining in Europe

2025

Muyi Zhang, Xiaotian Ma, John Laurence Esguerra, Hongling Yu, Olof Hjelm, Jiashuo Li, Feng Gao (2025) Towards sustainable perovskite light-emitting diodes Nature Sustainability (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI

2024

John Laurence Esguerra, Muyi Zhang, Feng Gao, Olof Hjelm (2024) Systematic Technology Selection and Data Inventory in Lab-scale LCA: The Case of Perovskite Light-emitting Diodes Extended abstracts of the 26th SETAC Europe LCA Symposium. Report no 2024:5, p. 41-42 (Conference paper)
John Laurence Esguerra, Annica Carlsson, Joakim Johansson, Stefan Anderberg (2024) Characterization, recyclability, and significance of plastic packaging in mixed municipal solid waste for achieving recycling targets in a Swedish city Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 468, Article 143014 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

John Laurence Esguerra, Annica Carlsson, Stefan Anderberg, Joakim Johansson (2023) Trade-offs between material efficiency and environmental performance for managing plastics packaging waste Proceeding of the 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (Conference paper)
Giovanna Sauve, John Laurence Esguerra, David Laner, Joakim Johansson, Niclas Svensson, Steven Van Passel, Karel Van Acker (2023) Integrated early-stage environmental and economic assessment of emerging technologies and its applicability to the case of plasma gasification Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 382, Article 134684 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

2024-28 Eco-cycle analysis for upscaling of future energy conversion technologies Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg

2024 Sustainable and circular management of end-of-life textiles from households, IEI Seed Funding

2022-24 A fair trial between circular economy and toxic-free environment, FORMAS

2022-23 Resource-efficient recycling systems for plastics packaging, Kamprad Foundation

2018-21 Landfill mining - creating resources by solving an environmental problem, Re:Source

2017-19 Mining the European Anthroposphere, EU COST-Action

2016-20 Resource Recovery Through Enhanced Landfill Mining, EU Marie Curie

Teaching

PhD Course

6FIEI28 Environmental systems analysis tools (Course Examiner)

Masters Courses

TKMJ53 Perspectives on energy and environmental systems

TKMJ55 Industrial ecology

TMPE10 Advanced project course

Organisation

Environmental Technology and Management

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.
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About LiU

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News

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Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable

Cost, technical performance and environmental impact – these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on society. This has been demonstrated by LiU-researchers in a new study.
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From the lab to a commercial product – a long and difficult road

Researchers at Linköping University are working to create the material for the solar cells of the future. The goal is to produce a commercially viable product. An interdisciplinary research project is to try to find out what it takes.

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