Workshop organisers

Laetitia Bornes

After working for five years as a UX designer, Laetitia completed a PhD in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), Systems Engineering and Design. Her research has resulted in the development of a methodology and tools to enable designers and decision makers to address the complexity of sustainability, with a particular focus on rebound effects. Specifically, she has co-developed Rebound Archetypes, a workshop and card game for anticipating and mitigating rebound effects, and Magnitude, a tool for modelling direct and indirect effects to inform environmental decision making.

Marcia Tavares Smith

Marcia is a designer and Senior Research Associate at the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. She has a PhD in digital innovation and her background is in design with special interest in participatory approaches and systemic design. Her current research explores the environmental impacts of digital technology.  She developed with Laetitia Bornes the Rebound Archetype cards.

Christina Bremer

Christina is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she is working on the Green Algorithms Initiative, which targets the environmental impacts of computational science. With a background in human-computer interaction (HCI) and a keen interest in sustainable digitalisation, she previously completed her PhD in the Socio-Digital Sustainability group at Lancaster University; her PhD research explored the role of digital interventions in realising energy savings, taking into account base load, rebound effects and user behaviour.

Stefanie Kunkel

Stefanie is a researcher at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam where she focuses on the implications of digitalisation in globalised industrial production processes for environmental sustainability, for instance, the role of digital technologies in monitoring emissions along the supply chain. She also works on the question of how and by whom (policy makers, developers, …) artificial intelligence (AI) can be shaped to optimise its environmental impacts, e.g., AI’s risks and benefits for environmental protection. Stefanie completed her doctorate at the University of Potsdam on the expected and observed effects of digitalisation in industry on environmental sustainability, using empirical social science methods, such as interviews, document and statistical analysis.

Dan Schien 

Dan is Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He investigates the sustainability of ICT by studying its direct and indirect effects on the environment. He has a long expertise with assessing the direct environmental effects of digital media services. He is increasingly involved in the assessment of the enabling effects of ICT as well as its policy implications.

Vlad C. Coroamă 

Vlad is the founder of the Roegen Centre for Sustainability (Zurich, Switzerland) and affiliated researcher with the TU Berlin, Germany. His research revolves around the relation between computing and the environment. He contributed both methodologically and with concrete assessments to understanding the environmental impact of ICT. Today, his main research interest lies in exploring the mechanisms through which computing can save resources, energy and emissions, and how to best exploit this potential, while understanding and avoiding the counteracting rebound effects.

Adrian Friday

Adrian is a Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University in the U.K. His work focuses on understanding ICT’s impacts on people and the planet.  He brings experience of interdisciplinary collaborations and mixed methods techniques for charting energy demand in the home, energy data in complex campus environments, sustainable logistics, and exploring sustainability of digital research infrastructures.

Mattias Höjer 

Mattias is professor in Environmental strategies and Futures studies at KTH since 2012. He has mainly been working with Smart sustainable cities and Futures studies for sustainable development with focus on energy use and climate change mitigation. Areas he has been especially involved in are related to digitalization, sustainable cities, transport and buildings. Mattias was heavily involved in developing the Swedish National Strategic Innovation Agenda for Smart sustainable cities, 2013-2014, later becoming the Strategic Innovation Program Viable Cities.

Charlie Wilson 

Charlie is a professor of energy and climate change in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford. He is also a visiting research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. His research is at the intersection between innovation, people, and policy in the context of energy and climate change. He analyses the drivers and dynamics of change in energy transitions, both historically and into the future using scenarios and modelling. He is also interested in micro-scale processes of low-carbon innovation, technology adoption, and pro-environmental behaviour.