Professor Tommy Wiedmann

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  Professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
  • 2013-2019  Associate Professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
  • 2006-2017  Director of the Centre for Sustainability Accounting, York, UK
  • 2011-2012  Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australia
  • 2002...
Phone
+61-2-9065-2065
E-mail
t.wiedmann@unsw.edu.au
Location
Civil Engineering Building (H20) Level 1, Room 106 Kensington Campus

  • 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, 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, 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 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 

  • 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’s Transition to Renewable Energy
  • Man YU, 2020, Hybrid input-output life cycle assessment of Construction Projects in Australia 
  • 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, Sustainability Assessment of Biosolids Processing Options Based on Process-based Life Cycle Assessment