Marc Dijk (M.M.)

Marc Dijk (PhD) is associate professor and research coordinator at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute at Maastricht University. His main research interests are sustainable innovation and policy, sustainability assessment and societal transformations towards sustainability. 

Marc is currently working on action-research projects in Living Labs focused on learning, upscaling, and social exclusion (SummaLab, EmbedterLabs, SPECIFIC, ACT), and a project on circular business model innovation (Circular-X). Previously, he was principal investigator of SmarterLabs, an action- research project focussed on upscaling and social exclusion in Smart City Living Labs.

Marc was visiting researcher at Oxford University (2012) and Linkoping University (2025), and honorary research associate at Oxford University (2018-2022).

He has published various articles and book chapters on innovation and transition in mobility, cities, businesses, and energy. Together with colleagues, he develops and teaches an integrative approach to sustainability assessment. It combines the understanding of stakeholders (perspectives, practices, etc.) with systems analysis of the issue (Qualitative Systems Analysis, Life Cycle Analysis, etc.), and usually a mixed-method approach.