Drs Donné Wagemans, MSc (D.)

Donné Wagemans, is a researcher at Maastricht University, affiliated with the Expertisecentrum Regionale Circulaire Economie (ERCE) and the Maastricht Sustainability Institute. His work focuses on sustainability transitions in complex socio-environmental systems, with particular attention to climate change adaptation and mitigation, resilience research, sustainability assessment, and knowledge co-production at the science–policy–society interface. He aims to operate explicitly at the boundary between the natural sciences and the social sciences, translating system dynamics into societally relevant insights and decision-support.

His recent research has concentrated on the sustainability implications of large-scale technological, infrastructural, and regional transition processes. Within the Einstein Telescope Technologies programme, he contributed to an integrated sustainability assessment of the potential construction of a next-generation underground gravitational-wave observatory in the Euregio. This work examined environmental, social, and economic impacts across planning, construction, and operational phases, and supported regional decision-making through stakeholder engagement and scenario-based analysis.

At the Expertisecentrum Regionale Circulaire Economie (ERCE), he designed and implemented data infrastructures and analytical workflows to map regional circular-economy systems. By combining data modelling, network analysis, and geospatial methods, this work supports evidence-based policymaking and regional collaboration in sustainability transitions.

Across these projects, his work is characterized by a systems perspective, combining empirical research, sustainability assessment, and stakeholder-driven experimentation to support robust, climate-resilient, and socially embedded development pathways.

He is passionate about: climate change research and researching sustainable innovations for climate mitigation & adaptation. He also enjoys writing about himself in the third person.