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Helena Kronby serves as a PhD Fellow at the Department of Sustainability and Planning within The Technical Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University, Denmark, with institutional affiliation to the Danish Centre for Health Informatics. Her research integrates sustainable design principles with participatory methodologies to address complex societal challenges in healthcare and energy systems.
Her primary research domains include sustainable design and transition, participatory design applications in social care contexts, health informatics (particularly dementia care infrastructure), Nordic-Baltic energy sufficiency frameworks, and knowledge sharing mechanisms in food production systems. She employs temporal participatory design approaches to develop user-centered solutions for vulnerable populations while addressing systemic sustainability challenges.
Analysis of her 2022-2025 publications reveals a strong interdisciplinary trajectory connecting health informatics with sustainable energy planning, demonstrated through projects on digital knowledge infrastructures for dementia care, strategic analysis of plant-based food systems, and cross-border energy scenario modeling. Her work consistently bridges theoretical design frameworks with practical implementation in public health and energy policy contexts.
Kronby currently leads the active research project Anchoring Social Care Through Temporal Participatory Design (2024-2027) as Principal Investigator and contributed to the completed Strategisk analyse af plantebranchens virksomheders udviklingsveje og udviklingsbehov project (2022). Her professional activities include conference presentations at InfraHealth 2025 and Dementia Lab 2025, alongside participation in health informatics forums like E-sundhedsobservatoriets årskonference.
She collaborates extensively through the Danish Centre for Health Informatics and participates in international research networks focused on sustainable energy transitions, particularly within Nordic-Baltic cooperative frameworks addressing energy sufficiency and scenario planning.
