Christopher Mutel
Founder at ETH Zürich
Riniken, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolChristopher Mutel is a founder and open-source sustainability technologist with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and practical tools for life cycle assessment. After a decade in academia and a PhD from ETH Zürich, he now leads Cauldron to modernize the Brightway LCA framework for integrated, team-friendly, high-quality sustainability assessment. He chairs two nonprofits (Départ de Sentier and formerly BONSAI) that run conferences, teaching programs, and community infrastructure to advance open sustainability and data. Christopher has also held roles at ecoinvent, PSI and ETH Zürich, continuing to maintain core Brightway libraries and utility tools that underpin the global sustainability-assessment community. Based in Switzerland, he combines rigorous research instincts with product-focused engineering and a penchant for bicycles and open data.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering at ETH ZürichMaster of Engineering - MEng, Environmental Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Environmental Engineering at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (200)
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bonsai10
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imports10
python-interface10
operation10
python10
verify10
risk-assessment10
warehouse10
brightway10
forge10
conda-forge10
conda10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cauldron/cauldron.github.io
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Cauldron homepage
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
polca/wurst
Nov 2016 - Nov 2022
Code and metadata for linking life cycle assessment databases to other models
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 16 PRs in 6 years 1 month
pythonlinkingdatabasescyclelife
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