Maud Lanau

Maud Lanau is an Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology's Department of Building Technology within the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Her research focuses on sustainable built environments, integrating industrial ecology, socioeconomic metabolism, and circular economy principles to reduce environmental impacts. She specializes in material stock and flow analysis, carbon accounting, and urban resource cadasters.

Education:

• PhD in Environmental Engineering (2020), University of Southern Denmark
• MSc in Industrial Ecology (2014), Chalmers University of Technology
• Mastère in Housing Engineering (2011), University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse
• BSc in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry (2012), University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse

Research Interests: Lanau’s work examines how built environment stocks can support circular economy transitions. She develops methods for material stock modeling, integrates data collection frameworks for construction practitioners, and explores urban morphology-material stock relationships. Her projects include the NUMMS initiative linking urban form to material stocks and the Future URCs project addressing circular logistics in construction.

Collaborations & Teaching: She co-supervises PhD students on topics like construction plastics circularity and sustainable mass handling. Lanau teaches the master’s course 'Sustainability Analytics and Visualization,' emphasizing industrial ecology tools and visualization techniques. She actively participates in interdisciplinary projects like CREATE and the Swedish Circular Economy Colloquium.