Dominik Wiedenhofer
BOKU University
Vienna, Austria
Member ID 0374
Member since Jul 13, 2011
Status Active
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Industrial ecologist investigating the potentials of supply- and demand side measures for high wellbeing while also mitigating climate change and lowering resource use. I am specifically interested to investigate path-dependencies, barriers and pathways for a fair and rapid sustainability transformation.

Details

I work as a Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Institute of Social Ecology at BOKU University, in Vienna, Austria. I greatly enjoy interdisciplinary research, teaching, teamwork, new collaborations, exchange of ideas and being outdoors. I am very passionate for my work as an opportunity to do contribute to the quest for strong sustainability and a fairer & better future.

I am very happy that I can be a part of the industrial ecology community since the last 15 years. I have contributed to the society by serving on several boards, as a reviewer for conference submissions and for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, as well as by organizing special sessions at conferences and online events.

The industrial ecology community is my scientific home and I always enjoy coming to our meetings and connecting with the many inspiring and interesting people in our field. I am highly motivated to support our exemplary friendly, open, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary society in its quest to contribute to a fairer and more sustainable future.

I have received several prizes and awards over the last years:
- Top 1% Highly Cited Researcher, category Cross-Field 2025 and 2022; Web of Science/Clarivate.
- World's Top 2% Scientist, 2022-2025, Stanford/Elsevier.
- Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership in Sustainability and Transformation Research.
- Outstanding Research Poster at the Gordon Research Conference of Industrial Ecology in Switzerland, 2018
- Excellence in Review from "Resources, conservation and Recycling"

I have served as Lead Author for the Special Report on Structural Conditions for Climate Friendly Living, Austrian Panel for Climate Change (APCC) (2022), as well as a Contributing Author to the IPCC Report WG3 Mitigation of Climate change, Chapter Industry (2022).

For most recent infos about my work, please see my google scholar, researchgate & official work profile:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominik_Wiedenhofer

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=305Tx5MAAAAJ&hl=eng

http://www.wiso.boku.ac.at/en/sec/personen/wiedenhofer-dominik/

Research Interests

Supply- and demand-side strategies; sustainable consumption and production; socio-economic metabolism; material, energy and carbon footprinting; dynamic economy-wide material and energy stock-flow analysis; input-output analysis; systematic reviews and evidence synthesis; socio-ecological transformation; circular economy.
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Website contributions from this member

23 Jul 2025 Call for papers: Urban metabolism in transition: Integrating space, function, services, and practices for the next generation of metabolic studies
22 Oct 2024 Call for special session contributions: IAMs & Industrial Ecology
24 Jul 2024 PhD Position: Material Stocks and Flows of Provisioning Systems Embedded in Global Production-Consumption Networks - BOKU University
16 Jul 2024 New avenues for macro-economic modelling under global constraints: The HARMONEY, MARCO, and MEDEAS models
12 Jan 2024 11 PhD scholarships: Economic Policies for the Global bifurcation - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (2024–2028)
24 Aug 2023 Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) - Vienna University of Economics and Business
12 Dec 2019 Member Spotlights: Dominik Wiedenhofer