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Mattias Lindahl

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A quest for a sustainable future

Professor Mattias Lindahl is among the top internationally-recognised scholars in the areas of Ecodesign and Product Service Systems (PSS). He has conducted research and teaching in EcoDesign since 1997, and research and teaching in Integrated Product Service Engineering (IPSE) also often called PSS since 1999.

Linköping University (LiU) has held a strong position for many years in the PSS area, and is currently the second-ranked university in Europe and among the top 4 in the world in PSS. LiU employs three of the top 10 most productive and influential researchers in PSS and Mattias is one of them.

Most of his PSS and EcoDesign research has been in cooperation with companies. Mattias is one of the initiator of the memorandum of understanding “Toward a More Competitive, Sustainable and Attractive Sweden” signed by five representatives of heavy industrial enterprises. He is also a project leader for several major research projects. 

Mattias has been involved in the writing of the ISO 14006 (2001) EcoDesign standard, where he was the chairman of the Swedish committee, and the main technical expert in the development of the content. 

He is also the EcoDesign subject editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production.

Over his career he has developed more than fifteen courses and taken a major part in the development of three engineering programmes.

Areas of Specialisation

  • Ecodesign, 
  • Product Development,
  • Product Service Systems (PSS),
  • Integrated Product and Service Engineering (IPSE),
  • Service Engineering.

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Publications

2023

Mattias Lindahl (2023) Miljödriven produktutveckling Miljöteknik: för en hållbar utveckling, p. 145-150
Marianna Lena Kambanou, Karin Gagnerud, Mattias Lindahl (2023) Consumption patterns of construction workwear and circular strategies to prolong its lifetime PROCEEDINGS 5th Product Lifetimes And The Environment (PLATE) Conference, p. 474-479
Bob Nanthakorn, Johan Vogt Duberg, Sok Seang, Jelena Kurilova-Palisaitiene, Erik Sundin, Mattias Lindahl, Ruth Banomyong (2023) Cambodian customers' perception of remanufactured automotive parts Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Remanufacturing

2022

Mattias Lindahl, Carl Dalhammar (2022) The Circular Economy: Towards a new business paradigm with support from public policy
Raul Carlsson, Tatiana Nevzorova, Derek Diener, Emanuela Vanacore, Robert Boyer, Marcus Linder, Mattias Lindahl, Annelie Carlson (2022) TRACE CERTAINTY - TRAnsitioning to a Circular Economy via CERTificAtion in INdusTrY: Testing metrics for measuring the circularity while metrics are being standardized: PROJECT FINAL REPORT Reference Number 2020-04410

Research

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Products Services and Innovation

The unit is a research group that are leading experts in applied and transdisciplinary research on sustainable value creation based on a system perspective that enables effective and efficient use and preservation of resources.

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The world's first ISO standards for a circular economy have arrived

Several researchers from the Linköping University have participated in the work to develop the world’s first ISO standards for a circular economy. The goal is a more sustainable society.

Professor Mattias Lindahl is contributing to a global ISO standard

There are hundreds of definitions of circular economy in the world, which leads to confusion. A new ISO standard with a definition widely accepted and disseminated will remedy the situation.
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Five LiU projects on the IVA 100 list

Five research projects from Linköping University are included in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 100 list this year.

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