Arnold Tukker

Functie:
Senior Scientist at TNO and Professor at Leiden University

Since October 2013, I am the Professor of Industrial Ecology and Scientific director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML, 160 staff) at Leiden University and served a maximum term as Scientific Director until September 2022. I have a 80% position in Leiden and retain a 20% position as senior researcher at TNO.

Professorship chair

Industrial ecology (Leiden University).

Research area

I’ve set up prominent EU projects in the field of sustainable product design (SusProNet) and sustainable consumption and production (SCORE!) and was core member of the 10 Million Euro Dutch Knowledge Network on Sustainable System Innovations. Moreover, I coordinated a string of major programs of some 15 million Euro with some 20 key European research institutes in the field of resource-efficiency, a.o. constructing the world’s most ambitious and detailed global energy/resource/economic input-output databases and models (EXIOBASE). Together with 6 partner universities we set up an EU Marie Curie Innovative Training Network of 15 PhDs researching the circular economy (Circ€uit). Next to this, I supervise numerous PhDs in the field of critical materials, future materials requirements for the energy transition, etc. This work is a pivotal support for the TNO activities in the field of resource-efficiency and a circular economy.

Top publications

  • Zhong, X., Hu, M., Deetman, S., Steubing, B., Lin, H.X., Hernandez, G.A., Harpprecht, C., Zhang, C., Tukker, A., Behrens, P. Global greenhouse gas emissions from residential and commercial building materials and mitigation strategies to 2060 (2021) Nature Communications, 12 (1), 6126.
  • Aguilar, G.A., [..] J.F. Rodrigues, A. Tukker (2019). The circularity gap of nations. A multiregional analysis of waste generation, recovery and stock depletion in 2011. Resources Conservation Recycling, 151 104452

  • Behrens, P., J.K. de Jong, T. Bosker, J.F.D. Rodrigues, A. de Koning, A. Tukker (2017). Evaluation the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations. PNAS, December 19, 2017, 114, p. 51 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711889114

  • Tukker, Arnold, Tanya Bulavskaya, Stefan Giljum, Arjan de Koning, Stephan Lutter, Moana Simas, Konstantin Stadler, Richard Wood (2016). Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe’s structural deficit in resource endowments. Global Environmental Change 40 (2016) 171–181

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The Netherlands

Postal address

P.O. Box 96800
2509 JE The Hague
The Netherlands