Dr Edwin ZEA ESCAMILLA

Senior Researcher of Circular Future Cities

Dr. Edwin Zea Escamilla is currently Senior Researcher at the Chair for Sustainable Construction at ETH Zürich. Earning his doctorate from ETH Zürich, his dissertation focused on the development of simplified life cycle assessment methodology for construction materials and buildings.

In his career, Dr. Zea has held significant roles such as the Head of Sustainable Building & Real Estate at CCRS, University of Zürich, and chair of the task force on bamboo construction INBAR.

He has contributed to several research projects such as the LCA of Re-/Use materials for Swiss Buildings and ZEROstrat, strategies for near-zero carbon footprint buildings and real estate solutions to increase timber construction in Switzerland.

His work has been recognized with the best paper award in the Journal Building and Environment (2015) by Elsevier B.V., and he has been a recipient a full scholarship from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (Nuffic) for his Master's studies and a fellowship from HILTI AG for his doctoral studies at ETH Zürich.

Dr. Zea Escamilla has delivered keynotes at several international conferences over the years including the World Urban Forum (WUF11), 2022, the Conference of Parties (COP26), 2021 and the Swiss-Korean Innovation week, 2020

Research Interests

Life Cycle Assessment
Material Flow Analysis
CO2 accounting
Bio-based Materials
Bamboo
Timber

Publications

View Dr Edwin's list of publications here and external pagehere.

Awards

2015: Best paper of the year 2015 in the Journal Building and Environment. Elsevier B.V.
2012 – 2015: Fellowship from HILTI AG for doctoral studies at the ETH Zürich
2006 – 2008: Full scholarship from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (Nuffic) for MSc studies

Education

2012 - 2016 Doctor of Science ETHZ, ETH Zurich
2006 - 2009 Master of Science in Urban Environmental Management, Wageningen University (NL)
1999 - 2004 D-ARCH Catholic University of Colombia (CO)