I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I graduated from my PhD in June 2025, during which I investigated various components of the built environment, their material use, and embodied GHG emissions as well as passenger vehicles and their life cycle GHG emissions. In my current position, I am contributing to an exciting European project aiming to enhance the understanding of our food systems. I am more specifically working with life cycle impact assessment, expanding my research to biodiversity impacts.
Lola's main research/work interest areas:
- Geospatial data and analysis
- Modelling to assess and quantify impacts
- Resource use with a focus on flows and stocks of materials
- Links between built environment and mobility
Lola's favorite cities and why:
I have been living in Trondheim (Norway) for many years, I love its colorful wooden houses, how close the forest is and how easy it is to bike or use buses on a daily basis. I enjoyed living in Nice (France), where I am originally from, for its location in between the sea and mountains, and the delicious ice creams. During my PhD, I had an amazing stay in Vienna (Austria), it felt like living in a museum and it is so well connected to the rest of Europe by train.
How did you get interested in cities research? What drew you to sustainability topics?
During my PhD, I got a strong interest to connect my research with urban areas by quantifying material stocks in the built environment, connecting with passenger mobility but also observing spatial variations at different geographic levels. My current research is not directly connected to cities. However, it is an opportunity to get new knowledge and an understanding of other human activities and systems, that I would be interested to bridge in in the future.
Recent publications
In our latest publication (https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ade8fe), I enjoyed learning about vehicles in Norway, it was interesting to see the different patterns of electric vehicle ownership across the country and calculating their life cycle GHG emissions. As part of this research, I also got to learn about the policies encouraging their adoption.
