Pia Laborgne

Pia Laborgne is a Scientific Associate at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She leads the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change, focusing on transdisciplinary sustainability research through real-world laboratories.

• Current Projects: NEEDS Repowered, Upper Rhine Sustainable Food, Climate Citizens’ Council of Freiburg, Co-SFSC, DuPa, KARLA, Your Balcony Network
• Affiliations: Coordinator of Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) TWG 4, Vice-Chair European Sociological Association RN12, COST Action NEXUSNET member

Her research spans energy system transformation, sustainable urban development, real-world lab methodologies, and food system sustainability. Recent work examines cooperative business models for food chains, inclusive energy transitions, and digital tools for public food procurement.

She actively participates in international conferences (ESA, UERA, EASST/4S) and contributes to policy discussions on sociotechnical transformation. Laborgne's current fellowship at Linköping University's TEMA T (2025) focuses on temporal dimensions of sustainability research.