Aalborg University (AAU), founded in 1974, is a public Danish university offering a wide range of programs in engineering, technology, health sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. AAU is internationally recognized for its problem-based learning (PBL) model, which emphasizes teamwork, real-world projects, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Department of Sustainability and Planning (PLAN) at Aalborg University focuses on sustainable development, integrating social sciences, technology, and physical planning. Its research spans energy planning, environmental assessment, circular economy, land management, and societal transitions, contributing significantly to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Within PLAN, the Life Cycle Sustainability (LCS) group counts about 20 researchers including several early career scientists, and brings together multiple competences within industrial ecology and sustainability science for the holistic and quantitative assessment of human systems in a life cycle perspective.
The research in LCS targets the development of scientific approaches, methods, tools, and databases to advance industrial ecology, primarily in the fields of life cycle assessment and input-output analysis, and encompassing multiple dimensions of sustainability: environmental, social, and economic. These developments are applied across a variety of cases, topics and scales: from existing products and services to emerging technologies and up to entire sectors and the global economy.
We thank all the staff from PLAN and LCS making Brightcon 2026 possible:
- Massimo Pizzol (scientific committee, practical organization)
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Agneta Ghose (practical organization)
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Marianne Nyborg (practical organization)
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Jannick Schmidt, Fan Yang, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen and Ning An (support to the scientific committee work and review of abstracts)
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PhDs and postdocs of the group for onsite assistance during the courses and conference
