Mattias Höjer

Professor in Environmental strategies and futures studies Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED) Division of Strategic Sustainability Studies, SEED and KTH Digital Futures and KTH Climate Action Centre

My main interests are digitalisation, use of building space and transport, all in a perspectice of Futures studies for sustainable development and often related to Smart sustainable cities in a broad sense. I am chair of the Smart society working group and member of the Strategic Research Council of KTH Digital Futures. My PhD-thesis from 2000 was on long-time futures studies on sustainable development with a focus on environment, transport and information technology in the future city. After the dissertation my research has been mainly focused on futures studies of sustainable cities, especially on energy use in cities. The possible role of information technology for changes of various kinds has been a part in many of those studies.

I am currently main supervisor for Leif Edin, Christoffer Forsberg, Anneli Kamb and Erika Styre and co-supervisor for Ahmad Al-Najjar, Zoé Barjot and Per Bolund.

PI for the KTH stratagic initiative on climate related-research

Program director of the doctorate program in Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH and Director of PhD-studies for courses related to Sustainability studies

Chair of WG Smart Society/Digital Futures, KTH

Strategic advisor of KTH Climate Action Centre

Member of the Scientific Advisory board of the Volvo Research and Education Foundations 2018-

Member of the European Expert panel D4S, Digitalization for sustainability 2021-2022

Director for the VinnEx Centre for Sustainable Communications 2009-2017

Member of the Swedish Government's steering group for the Innovation Partnership Program on Smart Cities 2016-2018