Arnold Tukker is Professor of Industrial Ecology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University.

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PhD Candidates

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  Bertram de Boer PhD candidate / guest
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  Sebastiaan Deetman Assistant Professor
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  Dian Triastari Armanda PhD candidate / guest

News

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  18 December 2023 Ineke Sluiter and Arnold Tukker first distinguished professors at Leiden University
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  06 June 2023 How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer
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  20 February 2023 A future based on Wellbeing, Inclusion and Sustainability, rather than economic growth
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  31 January 2023 The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious
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  24 January 2023 Electric car batteries can help drive the clean electricity transition
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  17 November 2022 Arnold Tukker receives honorary doctorate at Swedish university
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  13 July 2022 Kilotonnes of 'recycled' Dutch plastic waste end up in the sea
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  22 June 2022 How Dutch houses can become almost energy- and CO2-neutral
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  31 May 2022 Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice
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  30 May 2022 Leiden research project on circular electronics receives 3.8 million euros from NWO
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  19 November 2021 These eleven Leiden Science researchers are among the most highly cited
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  18 February 2021 New study helps policymakers combat global warming with negative-emissions technology
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  13 August 2020 Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability
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  11 February 2020 University invests extra funds in groundbreaking research
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  20 December 2019 Tsinghua and Leiden researchers find that China is crucial for realising a circular economy
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  10 December 2019 GDP? Get rid of it!
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  22 November 2019 Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals
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  20 November 2019 17 Leiden researchers on highly cited list
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  21 October 2019 Leiden will host international conference on industrial ecology
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  02 July 2019 University strengthens ties with Indonesia
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  01 April 2019 ‘We have world-class expertise on the circular economy’
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  19 March 2019 Leiden research addresses energy challenges
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  05 March 2019 Economic expansion and land use cause bird extinction
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  26 February 2019 Leiden University Day in China
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  12 February 2019 Stans Prize 2018 for Louie Krol
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  12 February 2019 How meat substitutes in your lasagne can help save the planet
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  19 November 2018 Book 'Forty years of Leiden Environmental Science' available
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  05 July 2018 Unstoppable urbanisation of Indonesia calls for interdisciplinary partnerships
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  14 June 2018 Four new editorial board positions for CML
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  30 April 2018 Leiden and Indonesia strengthen ties on sustainable research
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  05 April 2018 Province, universities and businesses to collaborate on circular South Holland
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  29 March 2018 The superpowers of new critical raw materials
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  14 December 2017 Science delegation enhances influence in China
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  04 December 2017 How a nationally recommended diet can improve the environment
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  17 November 2017 Metal constraints for a low-carbon economy?
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  16 November 2017 CML presents the circular economy at the European Academy of Sciences
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  20 April 2017 Towards a liveable future
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  03 February 2017 State Secretary Sander Dekker receives national research agenda Nature4Life
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  23 January 2017 Stans Prize 2016 for Carlos Felipe Blanco Rocha
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  16 December 2016 Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China
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  27 September 2016 CML highly successful in the European Institute of Technology Raw Materials programme
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  12 September 2016 Europe is the only continent living at the expense of others
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  23 May 2016 Major European subsidy for research on circular economy
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  23 February 2016 Circular economy essential to keep the earth turning

Links

• Centre for Sustainibility
• ACCEZ

Former PhD candidates

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  Xiaoyang Zhong
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  Teun Verhagen
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  Franco Donati
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  Chengjian Tu
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  Yi Lin
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  Xining Yang
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  Viktor Pirmana
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  Di Dong
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  Sebastiaan Deetman
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  Chunbo Zhang
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  Zhongxiao Sun
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  Glenn Aguilar Hernandez
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  Coen van der Giesen
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  Juan Wang
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  Rong Yuan
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  Maria Mendoza Beltran
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  Arjan de Koning
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  David Font Vivanco

Professional experience

Arnold Tukker was for 70% of his time Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) from October 1, 2013 until August 31, 2022 at Leiden University. 
Before October 2013, he was Business line manager Societal Innovation and Economy at TNO, a large not for profit research organization in the Netherlands, where he retains a 30% position as senior researcher.  Arnold set up prominent EU projects in the field of sustainable product design (SusProNet) and sustainable consumption and production (SCORE!) and was core member of the 10 Million Euro Dutch Knowledge Network on Sustainable System Innovations. 

He currently co-ordinates a string of major programs of some 15 million Euro with some 20 key European research institutes in the field of resource-efficiency, a.o. constructing the world’s most ambitious and detailed global energy/resource/economic input-output databases and models (EXIOBASE). He authored 6 books, 47 refereed papers and 7 special issues on sustainability research. He has been engaged with work of the UN on the Green Economy Initiative, the Resources Panel, the Ten Year Framework of Programs on Sustainable Consumption and Production, and Sustainable Development Goals.

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