Peer-Reviewed

Journal Articles

2026
Company Transition Towards Circularity: A Monitoring Framework Based on Transition Phases

Arteaga Prieto, E., Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

2025
Regionalized Life Cycle Assessment of Silicon Wafers Supply Chains in the Semiconductor Industry

Ahsan, A.A., Reich, R.H., Di Maria, A., Boakes, L., Rolin, C.

Circular Economy and Sustainability, 5(1)

2023
Data governance: Digital product passports as a case study

Ducuing, C., Reich, R.H.

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 24(1), 3–23

Journal’s Most Read PaperJournal’s Most Cited Paper
2023
How to measure a circular economy: A holistic method compiling policy monitors

Reich, R.H., Vermeyen, V., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 188, Art. No. 106707

Editors’ Choice of New Paper

Peer-Reviewed

Conference Papers

2026
Artificial Intelligence and Circular Economy: An Exploration of the Ecological Infosphere

Plocennik, C., Reich, R.H., Berthelot, A., Ruskowski, M., Van Acker, K., Schien, D.

33rd CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE 2026), Procedia CIRP, vol. 140, pp. 66–71, Kamakura, Japan

2026
A Conceptual Model to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Digital Product Passports

Zhang, L., Reich, R.H., Berthelot, A., Schien, D., Fröhling, M., Van Acker, K.

33rd CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE 2026), Procedia CIRP, vol. 140, pp. 707–712, Kamakura, Japan

2025
Conceptualizing Personal Data Pricing Through Construal Level Theory

Stein, H., Reich, R.H., Visinescu, L.

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2025 Proceedings, 6

Top 25% PaperBest Paper Award Nominee
2025
A Conceptualization of Green Governmental Monitoring Systems Through an Affordance-Actualization Lens

Pauwels, M., Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2025, Amman, Jordan

2025
Beyond compliance: Designing value-creating, service-oriented, and integrated product passports that contribute to the circular economy

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

32nd CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE 2025), Procedia CIRP, vol. 135, pp. 997–1002, Manchester, UK

2025
Towards a more comprehensive scenario development process in Material Flow Analysis

Férauge, S.C.R., Vermeyen, V., Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

32nd CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference (LCE 2025), Procedia CIRP, vol. 135, pp. 291–296, Manchester, UK

2025
Integrating the Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking into Project-based Learning of Engineering Students

Reich, R.H., Vermeyen, V.

6th International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM), Procedia Computer Science, vol. 253, pp. 1972–1980, Prague, Czech Republic

2025
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.

58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58), Waikoloa, USA

2024
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.

EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2024, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14891, pp. 163–178, Leuven

2024
Towards a service-oriented architecture for information systems in the circular economy

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

31st CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, Procedia CIRP, vol. 122, pp. 653–658, Turin

2024
Embedding a Circular Economy Monitor in Public Administration

Alaerts, L., Reich, R.H., Pauwels, M., Van Acker, K.

European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2024, Paphos, Cyprus

2023
The Circular Economy as a requirement for smart information system designs

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

5th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Circular Economy (DCOSS-IoT 2023), pp. 359–366, Pafos, Cyprus

2023
Defining the goals of Product Passports by circular product strategies

Reich, R.H., Ayan, J., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

30th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, Procedia CIRP, vol. 116, pp. 257–262, New Brunswick

2022
Valuation of Personal Data in the Age of Data Ownership

Stein, H., Reich, R.H., Visinescu, L.L.

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2022, Copenhagen

Paper-a-Thon Winner

Conference

Presentations

2025
The CE IS Architecture: Introducing the Circular Economy to Enterprise Information System Management through Architectural Thinking

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

20. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2025), Münster, Germany

2024
A Call to Action: Embedding Sustainability into the DNA of Information Systems Research

Reich, R.H., Mishra, J., Albizri, A., Cherki El Idrissi, S.

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2024, Bangkok, Thailand

2024
Circular Economy in IS Research: Value Creation and Retention Affordances

Reich, R.H., Mishra, J., Albizri, A., Cherki El Idrissi, S.

AIS SIG Green Pre-ICIS Workshop at ICIS 2024, Bangkok, Thailand

2024
Introducing the Circular Economy to IT Management through Architectural Thinking

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

NAMA Conference 2024, Straubing, Germany

2023
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.

EURECA-PRO 2023, Chania, Greece · Conference Proceedings, pp. 248–251

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.

EURECA-PRO 2023, Chania, Greece · Conference Proceedings, pp. 71–75

2023
The circular economy as a requirement for IS

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

Tech4CE Workshop at ECIS 2023, Kristiansand, Norway

2023
Building the next generation of circular economy monitors based on information system concepts

Alaerts, L., Reich, R., Van Acker, K.

Tech4CE Workshop at ECIS 2023, Kristiansand, Norway

2022
Information systems and sustainability

Reich, R.H., Bloch, A.

Joint UAS and Una Europa Emerging Researchers' Conference, Online

2022
Data utility as an enabler of data spaces? The circular economy as a case study

Ducuing, C., Reich, R.

FSR 11th Annual Conference, Florence, Italy

2022
A Holistic Method to Monitor a Circular Economy

Reich, R.H., Vermeyen, V., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

Data for Circularity International Conference, Delft, The Netherlands

Conference

Posters

2024
Digitalization for the Circular Economy

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

Flanders Make Scientific Conference 2024, Kortrijk, Belgium

2023
The Goals of Product Passports

Reich, R.H., Ayan, J., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Lille, France

Best Poster AwardBest Young Presenter Award

Other

Workshops & Reports

2024
How to Digitalize the Circular Economy? The CE IS Model Canvas

Reich, R.H., Alaerts, L., Van Acker, K.

Workshop · Flanders Make Scientific Conference 2024, Kortrijk

2021
Circular business models: Recognizing the value of closing loops in the façade industry

Reich, R.H., Van Acker, K., Di Maria, A.

Workshop · TheMISS Forum at Genera 2021, Madrid

2021
Circular economy indicators for buildings and housing

Reich, R.H., Van Acker, K., Alaerts, L.

Technical Report No. 19 · CE Center – Circular Economy Policy Research Centre

Academic

Theses

Academic Recognition

Awards & Honours

2025
Best Paper Award Nominee · Top 25% Paper
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2025 · Paper: Conceptualizing Personal Data Pricing Through Construal Level Theory
2023
Best Young Presenter Award
11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France · Poster: The Goals of Product Passports
2023
Best Poster Award
11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM), Lille, France · Poster: The Goals of Product Passports
2023
Editors’ Choice of New Paper
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 188 · Paper: How to measure a circular economy
2023
PhD Slam Runner-Up
Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany · Science Slam: Digitalisierung der Kreislaufwirtschaft
2022
Paper-a-Thon Winner
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2022, Copenhagen · Paper: Valuation of Personal Data in the Age of Data Ownership
2021
Scientia Fond Award
Master’s thesis award · Category: Engineering and Natural Sciences · Innsbruck, Austria
2021
PhD Slam Winner
Una Europa PhD Slam, Berlin Science Week, Online · Science Slam: The Circularmeter

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