I am a Director of KTH Energy Platform, responsible for facilitating interdisciplinary energy research at KTH and enhancing collaboration with funding institutions, industry, local authorities and other societal stakeholders in Sweden and internationally.
Since the beginning of 2015, I am KTH’s coordinator of STandUP for Energy – a collaboration initiative between Uppsala University, KTH, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Luleå University of Technology, which brings together leading research groups to enable sustainability transition of the energy system.

Since 2001, I am a researcher at the Division of Industrial Ecology (IE), Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED), KTH.
I am a co-founder and a leader of a new research group called “Urban Analytics and Transitions” (UrbanT) with two main research areas – Smart Urban Metabolism (SUM) and Transdisciplinary studies for urban transitions (TRUST).
My main research areas are complex system simulation, energy system analysis, participatory backcasting for strategic energy planning, and engineering education in sustainable development.

I am a KTH’s programme coordinator for the KIC InnoEnergy Master program in Smart Cities.

I am a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, and I also have a part-time reserach position at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. I have a background in industrial ecology (PhD in Industial Ecology) and science and technology studies (PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sustainable Development) and broad international experience having worked in Australia, France, Sweden and Finland.

Since 2009, I have been working at the interface between industrial ecology, science and technology studies, and waste and innovation policy. My research interests are centred on the legitimacy of processes in social coordination, the processes of socio-technical change toward more sustainable energy and material flows, and policy analysis applied the circular and bio economy.

I am R&D Manager at Stockholm Exergi and also a part-time research fellow at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management at KTH. Stockholm Exergi is the largest energy utility in Stockholm and operates one of the most advanced urban multi-energy systems in the world.

I have a background with a master in mechanical engineering and a PhD in Industrial Economics an Management where I focused on least cost integrated planning models in an energy/climate change context. Today I research techno-economic systems, in particular how increased renewables affect energy markets, and the conditions for bioenergy CCS.

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED).
The aim of my PhD research is to design and evaluate methods of increasing the environmental and social sustainability in neighbourhoods using ICT. More specifically, I am studying how the introduction of LocalLife, a local social network, can be used to increase the local sustainability. The research includes:
– to design a way of measuring social sustainability on household and neighbourhood level, and using it to measure the effects of introducing the local social network in a neighbourhood.
– to design energy feedback within the context of a local social network, and to evaluate its effectiveness in terms of increased environmental awareness and behaviour change towards increased sustainability among the residents

My background is M.Sc. in Energy Systems Engineering and B.Sc. in Computer Science, both from Uppsala University.

I am researcher at the Department of Energy Technology, KTH. I earned my M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Padua University, in 2006. The thesis, developed within the Erasmus program at the Fraunhofer Institut für Bauphysik, Kassel, dealt with energy efficiency and management in buildings. I earned my PhD in 2012 with a thesis focused on the use of exergy and parametric analysis in the built environment at the division of Division of Building Technology, KTH, and from 2013 until the end of 2016 I have been postdoc and researcher at the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Department of Automatic Control.

I actively participated in three international research projects and have been a main contributor to the International Energy Agency ECBCS Annex 49 final guidebook, “Detailed Exergy Assessment Guidebook for the Built Environment”. I am author of several scientific articles and I am in the editorial board of International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering. I have been supervisor of several theses in the field of low energy buildings design, energy management and conservation in the built environment and in buildings’ controls.

My research interests focus on smart buildings and on the integration of Information and Communication Technologies in the built environment, including energy monitoring and deployment of advanced control approaches, as well as on passive techniques and integrated design for low energy buildings.

I am a researcher at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED), KTH. I’m exploring approaches for transformative systems changes for sustainability in close collaboration with societal partners through the transdisciplinary research design. I have refined the modular Participatory backcasting (mPB) toolbox and currently studying the emerging portfolio approaches for steering urban transitions to climate-neutrality. I’m open to experimentation with innovative ways to learn and facilitate learning in collaboration with others.

I have an interdisciplinary background with a PhD in Industrial Ecology (KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden), a Master’s Degree in Social Informatics (IASA, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI” – Ukraine) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics (IASA, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI” – Ukraine). I also gained an extensive project management experience of social innovations (I have co-founded and successfully developed for 10 years a multidisciplinary international summer school AACIMP).

I have defended my PhD thesis “Steering sustainability transitions? Modular participatory backcasting for strategic planning in the heating and cooling sector” in April 2019. My PhD study was based on two full-scale participatory backcasting projects implemented in cities of Ukraine and Serbia and aimed at strategic planning towards more sustainable heating and cooling systems by the year 2050. Since 2019 I’m collaborating with the Swedish Strategic Innovation programme “Viable Cities” to explore how they design and implement transformative innovation policy to support cities in achieving climate-neutrality by 2030.

Since 2016 I am developing and teaching AL2115 “Transdisciplinary Approaches for System Innovations” course for students of KIC InnoEnergy master program “Energy for Smart Cities”. I also teach backcasting and scenario methods as a part of MJ2673 “Research Methodology and Theory of Science” course in KTH.

Olena Tatarchenko, obtained Master’s Degree in Sustainable Technologies from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and has been employed at KTH as Research Engineer since 2012. Previously Olena was involved in research and administration of several international projects like CLUE – Climate Neutral Urban Districts in Europe, ENEF – Central Baltic Cooperation in Energy Efficiency and Feasibility in Urban Planning, and Alive and KICing – Products and Services of Living Smart City Energy Lab
. Currently she works as an administrator of KTH Energy Platform, Mistra SAMS Research Programme and EIT InnoEnergy Master’s Programme Energy for Smart Cities.

My interdisciplinary research focuses on the social-psychology of human behaviour in the context of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). This includes the micro-level, e.g. consumers’ reactions towards sustainability communication and its implications for sustainable consumption, the macro-level, e.g. employees’ participation in CSR and the macro-level, e.g. the role of individuals in socio-technical transitions for a sustainable development. In my empirical studies, I use qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods.

I hold a B.Sc. in business psychology and a M.A. in management & marketing. For the last four years, I have worked at a research assistant at the University of Lüneburg and the University of Göttingen. In Spring 2016 I was visiting researcher the Catholic University of Zagreb. Since January 2017, I work as post-doc at the Chair of Human Behaviour and Sustainable Development (Prof. Dr. Paul Upham). Our research group focuses on the Social Psychology of Socio-Technical Transitions for Sustainability.