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Axel Lindfors

Assistant Professor

I would like to contribute to a broader understanding of how our industrial systems interact with nature and society.

Resource efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability

We need to increase resource efficiency and productivity within our industrial systems to ensure sustainable industrial development. My research focuses on how contextual factors influence the potential for this, and how decision support can be designed to facilitate the transformation of industry.  

Research

My research focuses on resource efficiency and environmental impact from industrial systems. Topics such as life cycle assessment, multi-criteria analysis, and industrial symbiosis are my core areas. I always work in close collaboration with companies and public actors in my research to co-create knowledge together with industry and the public sector.

Teaching

I teach the courses Environmental Technology Solutions and Industrial Symbiosis, and I supervise thesis projects at both bachelor's and master's levels within Energy and Environmental Engineering, with a focus on environmental systems analysis, industrial symbiosis, or environmental management.

Publications

2025

Axel Lindfors, Roozbeh Feiz, Sofia Poulikidou, Tomas Lonnqvist, Anton Fagerstrom, Mark Sanctuary (2025) Assessing the circularity of transportation fuel production systems Energy, Sustainability and Society, Vol. 15, Article 29 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Axel Lindfors, Wisdom Kanda, Marcus Gustafsson, Stefan Anderberg (2025) Interactions between Sustainability assessment and Sustainability transitions research: The benefits of combining approaches Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Vol. 57, Article 101019 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marianna Lena Kambanou, Pinosh Kumar Hajoary, Axel Lindfors (2025) Supporting start‐ups in the circular economy: An analysis of university‐led incubators in India Journal of Industrial Ecology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Axel Lindfors, Mats Eklund, Anna Brunzell, Erik Erjeby, Tomas Hirsch, Jonas Ammenberg, Stephanie Cordova, Roozbeh Feiz, Marcus Gustafsson, Maria Johansson, Emma Lindkvist, Thomas Prade, Anna Schnürer, Karin Tonderski, Sepehr Shakeri Yekta (2024) Världens bästa biogassystem: Ett BRC innovationsprojekt
Murat Mirata, Axel Lindfors, Marianna Lena Kambanou (2024) A business value framework for industrial symbiosis Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 28, p. 1541-1553 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

Biogas fueled car at the fueling station.

Biogas Solutions Research Center

BSRC is a national competence center for biogas research administered by the LiU. It's base for the development of innovative and resource-efficient biogas solutions often with positive local and regional effects on the environment and the economy.

Education

Environmental technology solutions

6 hp

This course is a basic course on environmental technology and systems thinking. It is given to first year students at the engineering program on Energy, Environment and Management.

Organisation

Environmental Technology and Management

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.
Campus Valla overview.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.
Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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