Laura Sofia Mesa Estrada

Laura Sofia Mesa Estrada, M.Sc.

  • Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
    Postfach 3640
    76021 Karlsruhe

Current positions

  • Scientific staff member at ITAS

Fields of work

  • Sustainability assessment of energy technologies
  • Methods of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)

Professional background

since 2021 Scientific staff member at ITAS
2020 Research internship at the Department of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems - Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2018 - 2020 M.Sc. Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Publications


2024
Book Chapters
Mesa Estrada, L. S.; Haase, M.; Baumann, M.; Müller, T.
Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Sustainability Assessment for Emerging Batteries
2024. Emerging Battery Technologies to Boost the Clean Energy Transition : Cost, Sustainability, and Performance Analysis. Ed.: S. Passerini, M. Baumann, M. Weil, 307–334, Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48359-2_18Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Presentations
Baumann, M.; Erakca, M.; Buchgeister, J.; Pinto Bautista, S.; Kumar, M.; Ersoy, H.; Das, S.; Jasper, F.; Mesa-Estrada, L.; Godoy Ortega, C.; Pushpendra, P.; Haase, M.; Lazar, L.; Weil, M.
Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung in der Batterieforschung – Erkenntnisse und Herausforderungen
2024. 66. Akademiewoche Herbstakademie (2024), Ulm, Germany, September 23–26, 2024 
Baumann, M.; Erakca, M.; Ersoy, H.; Haase, M.; Mesa Estrada, L.; Jasper, F.; Peters, J.; Weil, M.
Technology Assessment and System Analysis to Support a Sustainable Energy Transition: Part two: System Analysis challenges and use cases for sustainable batteries
2024. Centro di sostenibilità e transizione ecologica di Ateneo, Universität Palermo (2024), Palermo, Italy, May 14–16, 2024 
Baumann, M.; Erakca, M.; Ferarro, M.; Ersoy, H.; Mesa-Estrada, L.; Haase, M.; Weil, M.
Sustainability assessment of emerging battery technologies: Sodium-Ion-Batteries vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries
2024, October. Workshop "La Ricerca di Sistema: Risultati delle Attività di Ricerca sulle Tecnologie di Accumulo di Energia" (2024), Malfa, Italy, October 1–3, 2024 
Mesa Estrada, L.; Haase, M.; Baumann, M.; Cinelli, M.
How can existing MCDA software support sustainability assessment?
2024, September 26. 98th/5th European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding / Behavioural OR meeting (EWG-MCDA/EWG-BOR 2024), Catania, Italy, September 26–28, 2024 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Mesa Estrada, L.; Wulf, C.; Baumann, M.; Haase, M.
Stakeholders integration for MCDA sustainability assessment of energy technologies: a use case in energy storage
2024. International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2024), Munich, Germany, September 3–6, 2024 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2023
Presentations
Haase, M.; Mesa Estrada, L.; Wulf, C.; Baumann, M.; Müller, T.; Brand-Daniels, U.; Zeug, W.
Helmholtz activities in the field of MCDA-assisted sustainability assessment
2023. Helmholtz Energy Conference (2023), Koblenz, Germany, June 12–13, 2023 
Mesa Estrada, L.; Haase, M.; Müller, T.; Baumann, M.
Interactive decision support tool for sustainability assessment of energy technologies
2023. EWG MCDA 95 (2023), Jaén, Spain, April 13–15, 2023 
Mesa Estrada, L. S.; Haase, M.; Baumann, M.; Wulf, C.; Müller, T.; Ersoy, H.
Stakeholders integration for MCDA sustainability assessment of energy technologies: a use case in energy storage
2023, September 22. 96th Meeting of the EWG-MCDA (MCDA-96), Paris, 21st-23rd September 2023 (2023), Paris, France, September 21–23, 2023 
Wulf, C.; Haase, M.; Baumann, M.; Mesa Estrada, L.; Müller, T.
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Methods used for Sustainability Assessment
2023. 17th Society and Materials International Conference (SAM 2023), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 9–10, 2023 
2022
Journal Articles
Reports/Preprints
Mesa Estrada, L. S.; Haase, M.; Wulf, C.; Baumann, M.; Zeug, W.; Ball, C.; Bezama, A.; Brand-Daniels, U.; Buchgeister, J.; Heck, R.; Kopfmüller, R.; Müller, T.; Naegler, T.; Oswald, M.; Rudi, A.; Siekmann, F.
MCDA for sustainability assessment – insights to Helmholtz Association activities
2022. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7273635Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Presentations
Mesa Estrada, L. S.; Haase, M.; Baumann, M.
How can existing (licence-free) MCDA-based software support sustainability assessment? – A literature review
2022. 26th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2022), Portsmouth, United Kingdom, June 26–July 1, 2022