Topics

I focus professionally on the application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, evaluation of environmental sustainability and quantification of environmental impacts of products and organisations across various industrial sectors and waste management areas. Within my research activities, I concentrate on analysing the environmental impacts of innovative manufacturing and recycling technologies and on assessing new energy sources through LCA methodology. In the field of sustainability, I focus particularly on the environmental pillar of sustainability and its integration with quantitative assessment approaches, primarily with LCA methodology, with the aim of providing scientifically-grounded evidence to support decision-making in industrial and institutional practice.

Education

• 2009–2012: University of Economics, Prague, Master’s program – Ing., Faculty of Business Administration, Major: Economics and Management
• 2003 – 2007: Mendel University in Brno, Doctoral Program – Ph.D., Field: Waste Technology, Dissertation: Life Cycle of Pulp and Paper Production
• 2004: Groupe ESA, Angers, France, Erasmus Program, Field: Environment and Spatial Planning
• 1998 – 2003: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Master’s program – Ing., Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Field of Study: Environmental Engineering

Projects and grants

• 01.06.2025 - 31.05.2028. EK 44: DECIRE-WATER. Decentralized Solutions for a Circular and Efficient Water Management – from Demonstration to the Market.
• 01.09.2024 - 31.12.2028. MSM: CZ.02.01.01/00/23_020/0008508. LINES; Životní cyklus nových zdrojů energie.
• 01.03.2023 - 29.02.2024. IGS VSCHT: A1_FTOP_2023_004. Využití metody posuzování životního cyklu (LCA) při zavádění principů udržitelnosti do praxe.

Publications

• Tatiana Trecáková; Aleš Paulu; Ivanna Harasymchuk; Hana Brunhoferová; Vladimír Kočí;- (2025) The effects of the technological setup of plastic waste pyrolysis on its environmental performance, Environmental Science-Advances, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5va00182j. 
• Aleš Paulu; Jan Matuštík; Tatiana Trecáková; Vladimír Kočí;- (2023) Overlooked source of hydrogen: The environmental potential of chlor-alkali by-product, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.10.246. 
• Hana Brunhoferová; Tatiana Trecáková; Vladimír Kočí;- (2025) Life cycle assessment of electronic, electric and nonelectric detonators; a site-specific case for Czech Republic, Heliyon, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42371.  
• Martina Klimtová; Vladimír Kočí; Eliška Purkarová; Tatiana Trecáková;- (2025) Life cycle assessment of variants of water treatment technological processes in Pilsen (Czech Republic), Water Practice and Technology, https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2025.049.  
• Harasymchuk, I., Kočí, V., & Trecáková, T. (2024). Research of the life cycle for two most common routes of steel production with a focus on the impact to the human body. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 17(1), 341–359. https://doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2024.2349873 
• Koci, V., Trecakova, T. Mixed municipal waste management in the Czech Republic from the point of view of the LCA method. Int J Life Cycle Assess 16, 113–124 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-011-0251-4 
• Tatiana Trecáková; Vladimír Kočí;- (2022) Uhlíková stopa termochemického rozkladu směsných odpadních plastů pomocí LCA, Odpadové fórum.