Researchers and PhD students

David Andersson
Postdoc, Institutionen för rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap. Chalmers, Göteborg
David is interested in issues related to sustainable consumption and how society can change in a more sustainable direction. In his research, he has examined, among other things, the factors that affect households’ emissions of greenhouse gases, the link between well-being and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as rebound effects in the transport sector. In the program, David will participate in work on evaluating sustainable practices as well as investigating citizen engagement on sustainable lifestyles through ICT solutions.
David also runs the Svalna web service (www.svalna.se), which helps users gain understanding of their greenhouse gas emissions by analysing transaction data. Data from Svalna is used in the research program to identify and analyze sustainable lifestyles and as a platform for citizen engagement. David is also one of the founders of the card game Climate Call (www.kortspeletklimatkoll.se)

Erik André
Municipal Phd Student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, and Environmental Administration, City of Gothenburg.

Karin Bradley
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
karin.bradley@abe.kth.se
+46709186088

Carl Dalhammar
Associate professor, (IIIEE) at Lund University

Emma Ejelöv
PostDoc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
My research concerns the design and public acceptability of environmental policies, specifically policies related to sustainable food consumption. Methodologically my focus is on experiments.

Hanna Eggestrand
Research Engineer, the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Stockholm
I am interested in how (intrinsic and extrinsic) values influence our consumption, how resource use in turn affect the environment and how different consumption practices contribute – or not – to well-being. Most of my time is spent working with sustainability related courses at undergraduate and graduate level.
hannaegg@kth.se
+46 8 790 89 97

Göran Finnveden
Program Director and Professor in Environmental Strategic Analysis at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Stockholm
My research is focused on sustainable consumption, circular economy and methods for environmental and sustainability assessments of different types of products and systems. In the program I am the director and also leading a project on sustainable consumption and macro-economic effects.

Pernilla Hagbert
Researcher, Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH
I hold a PhD in Architecture and currently work as a researcher in sustainability transitions at the division of urban and regional studies at KTH. My research critically examines interpretations (and paradoxes) of sustainability. This includes exploring norm-critical, alternative ways of doing and living as part of transitions to a low-impact society. Within Mistra Sustainable Consumption, my interest is particularly focused on the role of different actors in promoting sustainable consumption, and the potential of policy experiments.

Hampus André
Affiliated researcher. Postdoc Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED),
I am a postdoc at KTH working in a research project on similar topics as Mistra Sustainable Consumption, about the climate transition of the Swedish Tourist Association (STF) in their mountain stations without connection to the road network. We study climate measures based on the idea of sufficiency (e.g. changed restaurant concept to avoid helicopter transport of fresh ingredients) with respect to mitigation potential and feasibility. In particular, I am interested in the acceptability of sufficiency measures, their assessment in life cycle assessment (LCA) and potential scalability. In other research I investigate user behavior and rebound effects in circular economy contexts.

Anneli Kamb
PhD student, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Stockholm

Mikael Klintman
Professor sociology, Lunds universitet

Jörgen Larsson
Deputy programme director, associate professor, senior researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
My research is about how the consumption patterns can be transformed in order to reach politically set targets, e.g. climate goals. One part is about developing target scenarios with calculations of climate benefits from both technological and behavioral changes. My main research focus is policy analysis, e.g. how they can be designed in order to be both effective in reaching the target and to have sufficient public acceptance. I mainly work with the consumption domains of long-distance travel (air travel) and food consumption. I am deputy program director for the Mistra programme and I am also leading the projects “Policy packages and public support” and “Company targets as a form of sustainable consumption governance”.
jorgen.larsson@chalmers.se
+46317723108

Matthias Lehner
Associate Senior Lecturer, IIIEE, Lund university
My research focuses on sustainable consumption behavior and sustainable business models. Within this field of sustainable consumptoin behaviour I have worked both on marketing/branding, consumer behaviour, nudging, and alternative consumption ideas (sharing, collaborative consumption, cooperatives). My main interest in all of these areas is the individual consumer and how her behaviour can be changed towards higher levels of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Within the field of sustainable business models I am most interested in how niche business models can become mainstream.
Within the Mistra programme I am leading the project “Digitalisation: friends & foes of sustainable consumption?”
matthias.lehner@iiiee.lu.se
+46 46 222 02 07
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Simon Matti
Associate professor of political science, Luleå University of Technology and Centre for Collective Action Research (CeCAR), University of Gothenburg
I am associate professor of political science. My main research interests concern environmental politics and policy, in particular the origins and (political) solutions of large-scale collective action problems for example climate change and resource depeletion. Theoretically, my research bridges the fields of political science, social- and environmental psychology, and behavioural economics, with a methodological preference for experimental and survey methods.
Simon.Matti@ltu.se
0920-492331

Oksana Mont
Professor in sustainable consumption governance, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Lund
I am a Research Coordinator in Sustainable Consumption Governance at the International Environment Institute at Lund University, Lund. My main research area is a multidisciplinary evaluation of various measures for changing consumption behavior, such as different consumption policy tools and business models in circular and sharing economies, collaborative production and consumption. Within the Mistra programme I am leading the project “Creating space for change by dispelling myths about sustainable consumption behaviour”.

Jonas Nässén
Associate professor, senior researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg

Vishal Parekh
PhD candidate, Division of Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH, Stockholm
I am a PhD candidate at the division of Strategic Sustainability Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. I hold a master’s degree in industrial ecology, and my academic interests include consumption and economic growth. My research focuses on the possible roles of civil society, the business sector, and policy in enabling a more sustainable consumption of food in society.

Emma Patterson
Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet
In a nutshell, my research focuses on measuring and influencing dietary behaviors at population level. Within the Mistra programme I have performed a health economic assessment to quantify the potential health gains that could be achieved if certain sustainable dietary practices became more widespread in the population. I have also been involved in the programmes’ research on sustainable school meals.

Ola Persson
PhD candidate, Division of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH, Stockholm
I am a PhD candidate at the division of Urban and Regional Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. I hold a Master of Science in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University., and my academic interests include consumption, sufficiency and economic growth. Prior to starting my PhD, I worked as sustainability consultant, with a specialization within Corporate Social Sustainability. My research focuses on the possible roles of civil society, the business sector, and policy in enabling a more sustainable consumption of furnishing and durable material goods.

Jessika Richter
Postdoctoral Fellow, IIIEE, Lunds university
My research is about evaluating policy instruments and initiatives enabling sustainable consumption through a circular economy, including repair, reuse, longer product lifetimes, extended producer responsibility (EPR), green procurement, circular business practices and circular city initiatives. In particular, I have researched trade-offs and challenges with more circular electronics, batteries, and vehicles.

Heather Schoonover
PhD candidate, Lund University IIIEE
heather.schoonover@iiiee.lu.se

Liselotte Schäfer Elinder
Adjunct professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
I am a professor in Public Health Sciences and leader of the research group Community Nutrition and Physical Activity at Karolinska Institutet. My area of research is health promotion and disease prevention, mainly focusing on dietary habits, physical activity and prevention of obesity and chronic diseases. Within the MISTRA Sustainable Consumption project I am responsible for analysing the potential health impacts of niche practices when scaling them up in the population. Health impact assessment is a multidisciplinary approach that draws from diverse disciplines such as public health, the social and political sciences, environmental health, urban planning, epidemiology and statistics.

Sara Skarp
Postdoc, Department of Sociology at Lund University
I am a postdoc at the Department of Sociology at Lund University. My current and previous research has largely focused on societal engagement with sustainability. I did my PhD, and continued working, in the UK, where I looked at societal transformation, local initiatives for sustainability, as well as traveling and holidaying during the pandemic, amongst other things. For Mistra Sustainable Consumption I will be researching collaboration and decision-making within initiatives for sustainable consumption, specifically in holidaying and food.

Åsa Svenfelt
Docent, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Stockholm
I am a researcher at the Division of Strategic sustainability studies. I am docent in sustainability and futures studies. My research concerns sustainable consumption and how sustainable futures can be achieved and visualized. In my research I use participative futures studies as a tool for long-term planning for sustainability and for dealing with uncertainty. I also have research on rebound effects and environmental justice. Within the Mistra programme I am leading the project “Testing new practices and measures in businesses and households”, as well as the project “Framing futures for deep transformation” together with Karin Bradley.
Former researchers
Noha Baraka Wadha
Research engineer, Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH, Stockholm
Mårten Berglund
Researcher, SCB
Miriam Börjesson Rivera
PhD student/researcher, KTH, Stockholm
Nils Brown
Researcher, SCB
Åsa Callmer
Resarcher, Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH
Annika Carlsson Kanyama
Reader (Docent)/Research leader, Division of Environmental Strategies Research, SEED, KTH, Stockholm
Riccardo Curtale
Postdoctoral researcher, Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology
Eskil Engström
Research Engineer, KTH, Stockholm
Rob Hart
Professor, Environmental and natural resource economics, SLU, Uppsala
Raul Lopez Losada
Resarch engineer, Division of Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH, Stockholm
Viveca Palm
Resarcher, SCB
Maria Thorson
PhD student, Department of Space, Earth, and Environment, Chalmers, Gothenburg