Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU

NTNU is Norway’s primary university within engineering and technology, with more than 23000 students. NTNU encompasses 7 faculties and 48 departments. About 370 PhD-degrees are awarded yearly, within the fields of technology, science, arts and humanities, social sciences and medicine. NTNU has a broad range of contacts with industry. The annual budget of NTNU is around € 700 million, 25% of which is externally funded. NTNU is an active participant in the EU R&D Framework Programmes and participates in 105 FP7 projects. The Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol) was started in the 1990s with strong industry backing to investigate options for companies to contribute to and align with the sustainability agenda. Industrial ecology as a field has developed a set of systems-analytical methods, often based on the principles of mass and energy conservation, to trace the use of resources in society (e.g. Material Flow Analysis) and to connect emissions to the use of products (Life Cycle Assessment). NTNU has consolidated its analytical activities in industrial ecology within the Department of Energy and Process Engineering. IndEcol also involves psychology, political science, design and management faculty. IndEcol currently has 20 PhD candidates, 6 Postdoctoral Fellows and 2 senior scientists, and 7 core faculty members.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU
Høgskoleringen 1, 7091 Trondheim, Norway
Phone: +47 73598949
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Website: http://www.ntnu.edu/indecol

 

Konstantin Stadler Information and Computational Sciences.The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK.

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Konstantin Stadler is a researcher at Industrial Ecology Programme at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering (NTNU). His research focus on the environmental and social consequences of economic activities. He has contributed to the data compilation tasks for building the Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output Database EXIOBASE 2 (fp7 project CREEA: Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts). Currently, he serves as a work package leader of the fp7 project DESIRE (Development of a System of Indicators for a Resource Efficient Europe) and GLAMURS (Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability). Konstantin also contributes to the EE MRIO application aspects within the fp7 project CARBON CAP (Consumption-based Accounting and Policy) and develops open source software for EE MRIO analysis. He has a PhD in Neuroscience from the Charite Berlin / FU Berlin. He will work mainly in WP7 and WP3.

Richard Wood Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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Richard Wood is an associate professor at the Industrial Ecology Program at NTNU. Richard specializes in environmental systems analysis, using environmentally-extended input-output and associated life-cycle techniques. His work focuses on the convergence of technological modelling with macro-economic modelling, linking production, trade and consumption perspectives. Richard has led NTNU’s role, and the co-ordination of major work packages in the development of the EXIOBASE suite of multi-regional input-output models. Currently Richard leads work packages in the EU FP7 projects DESIRE and CARBON-CAP. Richard has focussed on utilising techniques to handle and optimise large-scale datasets ending in integrated and detailed datasets at the global to regional scale for use in a range of environmental and socio-economic footprint applications.

Diana Ivanova Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

E-mail: Skype: diana.nbd Web

Diana Ivanova is an Environmental Researcher at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering. She has a Master Degree in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, with a focus on Environmental and Behavioral Economics. She specialized in sustainability during her economics and business studies in Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark. Diana has been involved in several international research projects on sustainable consumption and has assisted in journal publications in the fields of Environmental Economics, Development Economics and Behavioral Finance. Diana is mainly involved in WP7 and WP3.

Gibrán Vita Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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Gibrán Vita works as researcher for the Department of Energy and Process Engineering-Industrial Ecology. He has a background in Biotechnology and Process Engineering with a minor in Industrial Economy. He held a grant from EC-Erasmus Mundus to complete a Master’s degree in Industrial Ecology by Chalmers University (Sweden) and The University Graz (Austria). In México, Gibrán held technical and managerial positions in the food, pharmaceutical and steel sectors. Since 2011, he is a member and co-founder of Emulsionen: The sustainable engineering co-operative. His latest work includes developing small-scale waste-water treatment systems for biogas production with nutrient recovery, design and implementation of Trigeneration systems and research for the EU-FP7 project INERTIA: Integrating Active, Flexible and Responsive Tertiary Prosumers into a Smart Distribution Grid. He will work mainly in WP3 and WP7.

Edgar Hertwich Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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He is the Professor of industrial sustainability and director of the Center for Industrial Ecology at Yale University. He has a PhD in energy & resources from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2003-2015, he was a professor at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU. His 2005 and 2009 papers on consumer environmental impacts and the carbon footprint of nations have been recognized in the top environmental policy paper category of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Hertwich is a working group leader of the International Resource Panel (UNEP) and the lead author of the Panel’s reports on Priority Products and Materials and Green Energy Choices. He was a Lead Author of the energy chapter of IPCC 5th assessment report and contributed to the Technical Summary and the Summary for Policy Makers. Hertwich has co-authored >100 peer-reviewed journal publications and his work has been cited 3300 times in Scopus, h-index 29. He contributes to WP7 and WP3.