Professor Tommy Wiedmann
Professor
- 1995 PhD, University of Ulm, Germany, Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry
- 1990 Diploma (equivalent MSc), University of Ulm, Germany, Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry
Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- since 2020聽 Professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- 2013-2019聽 Associate Professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- 2006-2017聽 Director of the Centre for Sustainability Accounting, York, UK
- 2011-2012聽 Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australia
- 2002-2010聽 Senior Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, UK
- 1999-2002聽 Researcher /consultant at the VDI Technology Centre, Future Technologies Division, D眉sseldorf, Germany
- 1996-1999聽 Research Associate and Principal Investigator at the Centre of Technology Assessment, Stuttgart, Germany
Professional Affiliations and Appointments
- Adjunct Science Leader at CSIRO since 2021
- Lead Author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC (2019-2021) and Contributing Author on the Fifth Assessment ReportScientific Program Chair of the 27th International Input-Output Association Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, 1-5 July 2019
- Member of the Australian Department of the Environment Expert Committee on carbon neutral precincts, 2016-17
- Technical Advisor to GHG Protocol for Cities scope 3 accounting development under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol (World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD)) (2016-17)
- Council member of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) since 2016
- Co-Chair of the EEIO Section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology since 2016
- Scientific Program Committee Chair of the 2nd National IELab Conference 2017, 26-28 November 2017, Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the 24th, 25th and 26th International Input-Output Conferences in Seoul (Korea, 2016), Atlantic City (USA, 2017) and Juiz de Fora (Brazil, 2018)
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the International Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, 25-29 June 17, Chicago, USA
- Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the International High-Performance Built Environment Conference (iHBE 2016) 鈥 A Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2016 Series (SBE16), 17-18 November 2016, UNSW Sydney, Australia
- Scientific Program Committee Chair and organiser of the 1st National IELab Conference 2015, 11-12 June 2015, Freshwater, Sydney, Australia
- Member of Australian Bureau of Statistics鈥 Input-Output User Group since 2012
- Series editor of Springer book on 'Developments in Input-Output Analysis' since 2015
- Editor of book 'Sustainability Practitioner's Guide to Social Analysis and Assessment', 2015
- Editor of the Journal of Economic Structures since 2016
- Adjunct/Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, 2011-2020
- Editorial board member of the journal Economic Systems Research (ESR) since 2010
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue 2009 of Economic Systems Research on 'Carbon Footprint and Input-Output Analysis'
- Member of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) since 2007
- Member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) since 2005
- Member of the Sustainable Engineering Society of Engineers Australia since 2013
- Previous affiliations with CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra and the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, UK.
Phone
+61-2-9065-2065
E-mail
Location
Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Level 1, Room 106
Kensington Campus
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- ARC ITTC Transformation of Australia's Biosolids Resource, Project 3B, $269k, 2022-2025
- ACT Government, OCSE, Investigation into Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, $72k, 2021-2022
- NTNU, BYMARKA - Environmental footprints of cities, $75k, 2019-2021
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Key Index Approach Study, $111k, 2019
- ARC Discovery Project DP190102277, Assessing absolute sustainability of global cities, $380k, 2019-2021
- CRC for Low Carbon Living, Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM), Lead CI, $670k, 2014-2018
- NeCTAR IE Lab, Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory (IELab), Co-CI, $160k, 2012-2015
- CRC for Low Carbon Living, Integrated ETWW demand forecasting and scenario planning for precincts , Co-CI, $117k, 2013-2016
- ARC LIEF project LE160100066 , Enhanced modelling capacity for the Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory, Lead CI, $250k,聽2016-2018
- ARC Discovery Project DP15, Improving the Environmental Performance of Australian Construction Projects, Co-CI, $76k, 2015-2018
- Water Reuse Research Foundation, Methodology for a Comprehensive Analysis (Triple Bottom Line) of Alternative Water Supply Projects Compared to Direct Potable Reuse, Co-CI, $152k,聽2014-2016
- 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation Award in Economics
- Listed as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics annually since 2015.
Research interest
My research and teaching as聽Professor of sustainability research at UNSW Sydney is based on a long-standing experience in integrated sustainability assessment and environmental footprint analysis. My main research question is how to achieve concurrent human and planetary well-being. I develop and apply environmental input-output analysis as part of a holistic concept to life cycle assessment, industrial ecology and sustainable consumption and production research. Recent research interests are related to systems change towards post-growth economies. I lead a national e-research infrastructure project and coordinate a number of research projects related to sustainability.
Research Areas
- Industrial Ecology
- Carbon footprinting
- Environmental footprint analysis
- Life cycle assessment
- Environmental input-output analysis
- Sustainable consumption & production
- Ecological Economics
- Low-carbon economy
- Triple bottom line accounting
- Sustainability metrics
- Integrated sustainability analysis
- Sustainability transformations
Lectures/Courses taught聽
- Environmental and sustainability frameworks
- Environmental accounting frameworks
- Sustainable Engineering and Industrial Ecology
- Sustainability indicators
- Integrated sustainability assessment
- Environmental footprint analysis
- Life cycle assessment
- Material flow analysis
My Research Supervision
PhD supervision
- Guangwu CHEN, 2017, City-scale carbon footprint accounting and mitigation analysis
- Soo Huey TEH, 2018, Integrated Carbon Metrics and Assessment for the Built Environment
- Bahareh Sara HOWARD, 2019, Modelling the Carbon Budget of the Australian Electricity Sector鈥檚 Transition to Renewable Energy
- Man YU, 2020, Hybrid input-output life cycle assessment of Construction Projects in Australia聽
- Mo LI, 2020, Development and application of integrated sustainability assessment informed by planetary boundaries
- Cameron ALLEN, 2020, Systems analysis and modelling to support implementation of the SDGs
- Kylie GOODWIN, current, Absolute sustainability assessment of global cities
- Jingwen LUO, current,聽Sustainability Assessment of Biosolids Processing Options Based on Process-based Life Cycle Assessment