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About Charles Hi everyone! You may have met me at ISIE-SEM 2022 in Vienna, or perhaps at Brightcon2024 or the recent Départ de Sentier Autumn School. I’m Charles, a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Université Laval in...

Biography As a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, I focus on advancing the circular economy. My work revolves around understanding material flows: what materials we use, in what quantities, and how much we recycle. I use material flow analysis to uncover...

Since 1998, Prof. Hiroki TANIKAWA has studied the material weight of human activity, focusing on how much material is consumed in industrial processes. This research looks at society’s “material stock”—all the buildings, roads, cars, and other durable items that rely on...

I am interested in understanding future & sustainability using the lens of industrial ecology – questions like how a sustainable society looks like? and what it takes to be a low-carbon, resource efficient and socially just society? are the driving forces behind my work – and to...

I'm interested in everything related to material stocks: what, where, when, which ones, what for, and why?? On one hand material stocks are the physical manifestations of our stuff which provide us with beneficial societal services – hopefully. And on the other hand, their quantities and...

About Maud Maud Lanau is an Assistant Professor in the Sustainable Built Environments research group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. In her research, she strives to understand how to reduce direct and indirect environmental impacts caused by the development of the built...

I am a researcher at the Peruvian Life Cycle Assessment and Industrial Ecology Network (PELCAN) and an assistant professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). I earned my Ph.D. in Engineering from PUCP University, and my M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology from Leiden and Delft...

Dr. Yuan Yao is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems, and Chemical & Environmental Engineering at Yale University. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. Dr. Yao’s research focuses on the environmental impacts of emerging...

Kangkang (KK) Tong is an Associate Professor at China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She also serves as the Co-Chair of ISIE’s Sustainable Urban Systems section. Previously, she worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental...

Jiajia Li is a PhD candidate at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway.  Her PhD is part of the BALANCE (BALancing humAn and Natural resource use in Circular bioEconomy) project. She is also involved in the Circular City project. Her research focuses on...