Industrial Ecology Group

The Industrial Ecology (IE) Group at SEED, KTH, brings together researchers advancing systems-based approaches to sustainability. IE is an interdisciplinary field focused on understanding and optimizing material and energy flows in industrial and socio-economic systems to reduce environmental impacts and support circular resource use.

KTH has played a key role in shaping the field, hosting the third ISIE conference in 2005 and maintaining strong international engagement ever since. At SEED, the IE Group serves as a platform for collaborative research, peer support, and exchange on topics such as life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, urban metabolism, sustainable consumption, and environmental systems analysis.

Activities include monthly meetings, research presentations, peer-review sessions, and joint work on funding proposals and publications. The group also contributes to education at master’s and PhD levels and engages in networks that connect academia, policy, and practice for a more sustainable future.

Group members:SEED

Miguel Mendonça Reis Brandão , Jiechen Wu , Rebecka Engström , Rajib Sinha , Nils Johansson , Maria Malmström , Michael Alan Martin , Sofia Lingegård , Loris Mazzaferro , Kateryna Pereverza , Oleksii Pasichnyi , Jean-Baptiste Thomas , Henrik Ernstson , Anna Björklund , Göran Finnveden , Hossein Shahrokni , Fredrik Gröndahl , Joan Muñoz Liesa, Cecilia Håkansson, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Hampus André, Kristina Bergman, Kåre Gustafsson, Olga Kordas, Greger Henriksson, Ali Shahbazi