Marc Dijk (M.M.)

Marc Dijk (PhD) is assistant 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. He is also Honorable Research Associate at Oxford University (School of Geography and the Environment, Transport Studies Unit).

Marc is currently working on action-research projects in Living Labs focused on learning, upscaling, and social exclusion (SummaLab, EmbedterLabs, SPECIFIC), 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.

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.