Dominik Wiedenhofer

Career

• 2025 Adjunct Assistant Professor (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• 2024 University Assistant (Lecturer) (BOKU University)
• 2018 Senior Scientist, Institute of Social Ecology, Departement for Economics and Social Sciences
• 2018 Transfer Institute of Social Ecology to University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2017 Dr. in Human and Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria-University (with honours)
• 2013 - 2013 Visiting Scientist at the Nagoya University, Japan, Department of Civil Engineering, Research Lab for Environmental Systems Analysis and Planning. (with Prof. H. TANIKAWA, PhD)
• 2012 - 2012 Visiting Scientist at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Earth and Science Department, Sustainability Research Institute (SRI). (with J.K. STEINBERGER, PhD)
• 2011 - 2018 Researcher Institute of Social Ecology
• 2011 Master (Mag.) of 'Human and Social Ecology', Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, (with honours)
• 2010 - 2010 Visiting Scientist at University of Sydney, Australia, Department of Physics, Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA). (with Prof. M. LENZEN, PhD)
• 2009 - 2011 Researcher at EcoPolicy Lab, Neue Energien 2020, FFG Project 822065
• 2008 Bachelor of science (Bakk.techn.) of 'Environmental and Bio-Resource Management', University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna
• 2008 - 2008 Stipend from EU/Australia Exchange for Sustainable Development; Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Awards

• Year: 2025 Awards: Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field
• Year: 2024 Awards: Identified as part of the Top 2% Scientists globally
• Year: 2023 Awards: BOKU Best Paper Award "Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035" Wiedenhofer et al.(2021) GlobalEnvChange
• Year: 2023 Awards: Identified as part of the Top 2% Scientists globally
• Year: 2022 Awards: Highly Cited Researcher, Cross-Field
• Year: 2022 Awards: Stadt Wien-BOKU Research Funding des Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien, zum Schwerpunkt: "(Wiener) Wege in die Zukunft / Visionen einer nachhaltigen Metropolregion: von Kreisläufen und Interaktionen"
• Year: 2022 Awards: Identified as part of the Top 2% Scientists globally
• Year: 2021 Awards: Best Paper Award for the year 2020 of the Journal "Resources, Conservation & Recycling", as co-author together with Willi Haas, Christian Lauk, Andreas Mayer and Fridolin Krausmann
• Year: 2020 Awards: 2019 Graedel Prize: Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE) Senior Author Best Paper Prize, as co-author with Andreas Mayer, Willi Haas, Fridolin Krausmann et al.
• Year: 2018 Awards: Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Research Poster at the Gordon Research Conference of Industrial Ecology, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
• Year: 2016 Awards: Excellence in Review Award from the journal “Resources, Conservation and Recycling”