Member Spotlights
20 Nov 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 W...
15 Nov 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 re...
14 Nov 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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, ro...
13 Nov 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 ...
12 Nov 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 – hopefu...
Maud Lanau
15 Oct 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 impac...
Diana Ita-Nagy
03 Oct 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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...
Yuan Yao
24 Sep 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 resea...
Kangkang Tong
20 Sep 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 Assoc...
Jiajia Li
04 Sep 2024 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
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 Circ...
