About
We work closely with government organisations, businesses and individuals, who are looking to deliver positive environmental impact. We draw on our expert life cycle thinking to provide an evidence base to support big decisions to achieve ambitious targets.
Our Story
Our consultancy was founded in 2003 by Tim Grant, who has worked in LCA for over 25 years. He is the founding member of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society and is a pillar of the international Life Cycle community through his involvement with the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, ISO standards development committee for ISO14048 and the Forum for Sustainability through Life Cycle Innovation.
Tim’s passion to see a more rational science-based approach to environmental decision-making led him to step away from academia and build our consultancy to work closely with businesses to change the way they think and operate.
Within our 20 years of operations, we’ve generated or reviewed 10+ circular economy strategies for local, State, Federal government and the private sector;
contributed to the development of 3+ industry-leading calculators (Australian Greenhouse Calculator, eTool, Farmprint); contributed to the $400k National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study; and significantly, provided guidance to ARENA & Climate Active to maintain the integrity of LCA in Australia.
We’ve grown both internally and externally with strategic alliances with other consultants, and partnered with research organisations. We have a tight-knit team of industry leaders and sustainability advocates who’ve grown and evolved along with the company and accrued a number of bright graduates along the way. Each team member has a unique mixture of technical skills, empathy and unwavering dedication to science and sustainability.
Affiliations
Lifecycles has developed key relationships with leading research and consulting bodies enabling us to deliver the latest in life cycle analysis techniques and practices.
Team
We're a highly specialised team of scientists, engineers, analysts, project leaders, collaborators and change-makers, who do things the Lifecycles way.
Since our inception in 2003, we have grown both internally and externally with strategic alliances with other consultants and research organisations.
We appointed Dr. Sandra Eady after completing her 30-year career with CSIRO; formalised our long-standing partnership with Paul-Antoine Bontinck and acquired a number of bright graduates along the way.
Tim Grant
Director & Founder
Tim has worked in LCA for over 25 years and has undertaken over 50 full LCA studies including the development of the Australian National Life Cycle Inventory Database. He is the founding member of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society and is a pillar of the international Life Cycle community through his involvement with the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, ISO standards development committee for ISO14048 and the Forum for Sustainability through Life Cycle Innovation. Tim has been instrumental in the development of data and leading-edge scientific support for supply chain sustainability tools. He has contributed to several books, being co-author of Assessment: Principles, Practice and Prospects (CSIRO Publishing) and Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods (Greenleaf Publishing Limited).
Marguerite Renouf
Head of Strategic Business Development
Marguerite has 20 years of LCA and sustainability experience in academia and consulting. She holds a PhD and contributes to research in the university sector. Her expertise is in agriculture, food and bio-based production systems, working closely with industries and governments towards a sustainable bioeconomy (bioenergy, biofuels, bioplastics). Marguerite is a longstanding Board member of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS), and contributes to national and international expert working groups for advancing LCA methods in agriculture and food systems. Marguerite relishes the multidisciplinary collaboration that is needed in LCA work to inform good sustainability decision making.
Chrissi Bok
Business Services Manager
Chrissi manages our accounting, HR, sales & customer service and oversees events & trainings. Chrissi takes pride and joy in making sure everything is ticking smoothly at the office’s back end; she loves the variety of her role. She also manages the administrative and accounting role for ALCAS - the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society.
After finishing her business management degree in Germany, she worked in hospitality and accounting before making Australia her new home where she worked in tax accounting and customer service.
Chrissi deeply cares about the environment; you can often find her picking up rubbish in parks or along the beach.
Gabriella Hooper
Head of Marketing & Communications
Gabriella joined the Lifecycles team in 2022 to lead the marketing, brand, and product development. She has 7 years of experience in communications and marketing agencies in London and Australia.
Having managed large scale brand campaigns for consumer and corporate companies including McDonalds, Skyscanner, Johnson & Johnson, Equifax, Bunnings and Diageo, she prides herself on her ability to connect brands with key audiences through strategic communications and digital marketing.
Paul-Antoine Bontinck
Senior LCA Consultant
Paul-Antoine is an environmental engineer specialising in LCA. He has applied LCA in research, consulting, and industry settings over the past 12 years. Alongside his Master of Environmental Engineering, this gives him a deep understanding of the many possible applications for LCA models.
As a Senior Consultant at Lifecycles, Paul-Antoine has specialised in the development and handling of large models, linking Material Flow Analysis and LCA. Most recently, Paul-Antoine led the update of the National Food Waste Baseline and developed a stock and flow model of Australia’s consumption of e-product, estimating current and projected volumes of e-waste arising in Australia.
Dr. Beatriz Reutter
Senior LCA Consultant
Beatriz is expert on agriculture-related LCA and sustainability studies, with a PhD on "The environmental burden of food" and MSc in Integrated Water Management. She contributes to Lifecycles with her broad experience in project management, grant submission and policy in the field of sustainable development and agrifood systems.
Beatriz believes that every little act counts, so together with helping business to reduce their environmental impact, she is passionate about every day acts to reduce consumers’ footprints.
Dr. Sandra Eady
Agriculture Systems Consultant
Sandra is an agricultural scientist with extensive experience working within the industry. In her 30-year career with CSIRO, Sandra led CSIRO’s work on GHG abatement and carbon storage in the land sector, assessing land-based climate change mitigation options at the national scale.
In partnering with Lifecycles, Sandra is contributing to the establishment of environmental benchmarks to ensure market access for products, such as oilseeds for the EU bio-fuel market.
Anna Boyden
Research Scientist
Anna is a Research Scientist specialising in LCA. At Lifecycles, she has completed detailed LCAs across various sectors, on topics such as, bioenergy, medical products, and advanced recycling. Anna also leads Lifecycles’ Climate Active division.
Anna has a background in engineering for sustainability, with particular interest in metrics and strategies for a circular economy. Her Master’s thesis assessed the benefits of circular economy strategies in Australia using input-output analysis.
Anna enjoys putting circular economy principles into practice by buying second-hand, reusing and repairing as much as possible.
Lucille Wagner
Research Scientist
Lucille completed a technical degree in Organic and Analytical Chemistry and an MSc in Medicinal Chemistry. After three years in Medical Research, she joined Lifecycles in 2020.
At Lifecycles, she has worked on a variety of LCA consulting projects: from biochar and small electronic medical devices to hydrogen production and biomanufacturing. She has also reviewed many LCAs, and carbon neutral certification claims under different certification schemes.
She recently completed a course in social LCA and hopes to apply this knowledge by helping clients understand their environmental and social footprint.
Cathy Jiang
Research Scientist
Cathy studied a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Hons) and Bachelor of Economics double degree at Monash University, which covered a range of topics from urban hydrology and thermodynamics to energy markets and behavioural economics.
As an intern, she worked on environmental and social impact assessments, focusing was on background research and environmental modelling, including noise modelling, air quality modelling for PM10, vibration assessments, and geospatial work. She has also completed work on programming streetlights to save electricity and reduce emissions.
Dr. Isobel Hume
Research Scientist
Isobel is an Environmental and Spatial Scientist, recently completing her PhD thesis at University of Adelaide. She enjoys using quantitative analysis to understand resource use in food production and agricultural systems.
Isobel has experience in both university and private sector roles, where she has worked on projects relating to soil-microbiology, land use monitoring, Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), urban development, and construction.
Isobel is also an experienced educator and is passionate about the importance of effective science communication. She shares her research in The Conversation and is deeply committed to making information accessible.
Jamie Brown
Research Scientist
Jamie completed a Bachelor of Sustainable Systems Engineering & Industrial Design (Hons) and joined Lifecycles in 2023 as a Research Scientist, specialising in LCA.
She has conducted LCA studies across agrifood products, bioenergy systems, waste processing, and public infrastructures. Jamie values how LCA can inform robust insights into complex systems.
Jamie also values integrating thoughtful design methods with on-the-ground practice. For her honours thesis, she crafted a speculative artefact to facilitate conversations through community workshops, focusing on navigating Australia's ongoing extractive legacy amid a climate crisis.
Lucy Holden
Research Scientist
Lucy completed a BComm (Finance) at the University of Sydney whilst working as an investment analyst at a boutique wealth management firm, followed by an MSc in Energy, Trade and Finance in London.
She was awarded second place in a team business plan project on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of marine transportation through low-cost wind propulsion technologies.
Lucy wrote her individual Master’s thesis on the economic viability of blue hydrogen production.
She joined Lifecycles as a Graduate Scientist in January 2023 and is excited to apply her quantitative skills to impact assessment consulting projects.
Eliza Grant
Research Scientist
Eliza is an Environmental Consultant who has worked in the industry for 6 years with PwC, BDO and State Government on a range of financial, climate and energy related projects. She is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Environment, majoring in climate policy.
Eliza brings commercial and regulatory insights to her work in LCA, drawing on reporting and assurance experience against reporting frameworks including Climate Active, SBTi, NGER, the Safeguard Mechanism, and preparing for the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRSs). Eliza has also worked with clients in developing GHG emissions reduction targets and strategies.
Eliza is excited to play a role in building business and community resilience against climate change.
Cailtin Welsh
Research Scientist
Caitlin graduated from the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2020 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) majoring in Chemical and Materials Engineering. Since then, Caitlin worked as a Graduate Engineer at a fibre packaging company in Brisbane. She continued with this company as a Project Engineer while also returning to UQ for further study.
Caitlin began her PhD in 2023 at the ARC Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites. Caitlin’s research centres around Environmentally Packaging Materials with a focus on PHA.
Caitlin joined Lifecycles in February 2024 for a 6-month Industry Placement as part of her PhD. She loved it so much that she continues to work for us alongside her studies.
Meg Chatterton
Events & Marketing Coordinator
Meg has a Master of Urban Horticulture from The University of Melbourne. She joined the Lifecycles team in 2022, having previously worked in graphic design and administration.
Meg enjoys assisting Chrissi and Gabriella with customer service, sales, events, and marketing to enable our consultants to focus on the core of our business.