Publications

Journal articles (peer reviewed)

Data governance: Digital product passports as a case study

Ducuing, C., Reich, R.H. (2023). Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 24 (1), 3-23. (DOI) (PDF)


How to measure a circular economy: A holistic method compiling policy monitors

Reich, R.H., Vermeyen, V., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2023). Resources Conservation And Recycling, 188, Art.No. 106707. (DOI) (PDF)

Conference papers (peer reviewed)

Discovering the Circular Economy as a Problem Space for Information Systems Research

Reich, R.H., Arteaga Prieto, E., Pauwels, M., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2025). In: HICSS-58 Proceedings. Presentation at the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, USA, 7 Jan 2025-10 Jan 2025.


Understanding the Problem Space for Effective Use of a Circular Economy Monitor in Policy Making

Pauwels, M., Reich, R.H., Vercalsteren, A., Christis, M., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2024). In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 14891 (163 - 178). Presented at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2024, Leuven, Belgium, 1 Sep 2024-5 Sep 2024. (DOI) (PDF)


Towards a service-oriented architecture for information systems in the circular economy

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2024). In: Procedia CIRP vol. 122 (653-658). Presented at the 31st CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, Turin, Italy, 19 Jun 2024-21 Jun 2024. (DOI) (PDF)


Embedding a Circular Economy Monitor in Public Administration

Alaerts, L., Reich, R.H., Pauwels, M., Van Acker, K., (2024). In: ECIS 2024 Proceedings, 24. Presented at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Paphos, Cyprus, 17 Jun 2024-19 Jun 2024. (URL) (PDF)


The Circular Economy as a requirement for smart information system designs

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2023).  In: DCOSS-IoT 2023, (359-366). Presented at the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Circular Economy, Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus, 19 Jun 2023-21 Jun 2023. ISBN: 979-8-3503-4649-7  (DOI) (PDF)


Defining the goals of Product Passports by circular product strategies

Reich, R.H., Ayan, J., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2023). In: Procedia CIRP vol. 116, (257-262). Presented at the 30th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, 15 May 2023-17 May 2023. (DOI) (PDF)


Valuation of Personal Data in the Age of Data Ownership

Stein, H., Reich, R.H., Visinescu, L.L. (2022). In: ICIS 2022 Proceedings, 16. Presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 09 Dec 2022-14 Dec 2022. ISBN: 978-1-958200-04-9  (URL) (PDF)

Conference presentations (excl. papers)

Comparing the Sustainability of Biorefinery and Petroleum-based Refinery Processes for Energy Production using the Social Footprint Methodology 2021

Zarafshani, H., Watjanatepin, P., Van Acker, K., Reich, R.H. (2023). In: Conference Proceedings EURECA-PRO 2023, (248-251). Presented at the The third EURECA-PRO conference on responsible consumption and production 2023, Chania, Greece, 26 Sep 2023-29 Sep 2023.


Environmental Impact Assessment of Silicon Wafers Supply Chains in the Semiconductor Industry

Ahmed, A.A., Reich, R.H., Di Maria, A., Van Acker, K., Boakes, L., Rolin, C. (2023). In: Conference Proceedings EURECA-PRO 2023, (71-75). Presented at the The third EURECA-PRO conference on responsible consumption and production 2023, Chania, Greece, 26 Sep 2023-29 Sep 2023.


The circular economy as a requirement for IS

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2023).  Presented at the Digital Technologies for Circular Economy (Tech4CE) workshop at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2023, Kristiansand, Norway, 12 Jun 2023-16 Jun 2023.


Building the next generation of circular economy monitors based on information system concepts

Alaerts, L., Reich, R., Van Acker, K. (2023). Presented at the Digital Technologies for Circular Economy (Tech4CE) workshop at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2023, Kristiansand, Norway, 12 Jun 2023-16 Jun 2023.


Information systems and sustainability

Reich, R.H., Bloch, A. (2022). Presented at the Joint UAS and Una Europa Emerging Researchers’ Conference, online, 01 Nov 2022-09 Nov 2022.


Data utility as an enabler of data spaces? The circular economy as a case study

Ducuing, C., Reich, R. (2022). Presented at the FSR 11th Annual Conference, Florence, Italy, 09 Jun 2022-10 Jun 2022.


A Holistic Method to Monitor a Circular Economy

Reich, R.H., Vermeyen, V., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2022). Presented at the Data for Circularity International Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, 24 May 2022-25 May 2022.

Conference posters

Digitalization for the Circular Economy

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2024). Presented at the Flanders Make Scientific Conference 2024, Kortrijk, Belgium, 26 Mar 2024. (POSTER)


The Goals of Product Passports

Reich, R.H., Ayan, J., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K. (2023). Presented at the 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Lille, France, 06 Sep 2023-08 Sep 2023. (POSTER)

Professional (industry) workshops

How to Digitalize the Circular Economy? The CE IS Model Canvas

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K., (2024). Conducted at the Flanders Make Scientific Conference 2024, Kortrijk, Belgium, 26 Mar 2024.


Circular business models: Recognizing the value of closing loops in the façade industry.

Reich, R.H., Van Acker, K., Di Maria, A. (2021). Conducted at the TheMISS forum at Genera 2021, Madrid, 15 Nov 2021-17 Nov 2021.

Science slams

Let's tinker with the digital circular economy! 

At Lunch&Learn, KU Leuven Department of Materials Engineering, 29 Feb 2023


Digitalisierung der Kreislaufwirtschaft

At the phaeno Sciene Slam, Wolfsburg, 02 Mar 2023


The Circularmeter

At the Una Europa PhD Slam, online, 04 Nov 2021

Technical reports

Circular economy indicators for buildings and housing

Reich, R.H., Van Acker, K., Alaerts, L. (2021). Circular economy indicators for buildings and housing, Report No. 19, CE Center - Circular economy policy research centre. (URL) (PDF)

Theses

Datafication of material mechanisms in nuclear environment

Reich, R.H. (2020). Master's Thesis, Montanuniversität Leoben. (URL) (PDF)