Prof. Manfred LENZEN

Professor of Sustainability Research, The University of Sydney

Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD in Physics and 25 years of experience in renewable energy technologies, life-cycle assessment, and carbon footprinting. His current research interests revolve around the application of input-output analysis to global environmental problems. To this end he has published an article about international trade driving global species threats in the journal Nature. He currently leads research initiatives aimed at developing collaborative research platforms for building large-scale global trade databases that enable biodiversity footprint analysis across global supply-chain networks. His work routinely employs high-performance computation. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Economic Systems Research.