BASF SE
BASF is a global leader in the chemical industry, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and founded in 1865. BASF operates across sectors including chemicals, plastics, performance materials, agricultural solutions and speciality products, and develops innovative solutions that support safe and sustainable products and processes.
In iLCA4SSbD, BASF contributes the perspective of a large industrial chemical company and supports the testing and demonstration of integrated Life Cycle Assessment approaches for Safe and Sustainable by Design decision-making. BASF is involved in WP7, “Testing & demonstration with case studies from industry”, where methods and tools developed in WP3–5 will be evaluated in realistic industrial case studies and linked back to the WP6 digital platform. BASF’s work focuses on industrial applicability, case-study feedback, and the practical integration of safety, sustainability, LCA and AI-supported assessment approaches into early innovation and product-development workflows.
BASF will contribute expertise in computational toxicology, in-silico New Approach Methodologies, SSbD assessment, industrial case-study design and data requirements for scalable implementation of iLCA methods.
Involved Persons:
James Cairns, BASF SE — Team Lead Computational Toxicology & Statistics; involved in WP7 testing and demonstration with industrial case studies; communication/contact support for BASF.
Ayse Ay, BASF SE — Material Science for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Innovations; involved in WP7, BASF case-study preparation, SSbD/LCA integration and project coordination.