We are pleased to welcome researchers Fredrik Wikstr枚m and Hel茅n Williams to CTF. They focus their research on how packaging can affect people to throw away less food.
Fredrik Wikstr枚m and Hel茅n Williams are active in the field of Environmental and Energy Systems at 果冻传媒. At the moment they are conducting research within an ongoing FORMAS project that runs up to 2019.
鈥 To be able to change our research environment, to participate in a larger and excellent environment, and being able to learn more about service perspectives, behavior and its influence on the environmental impact and the earth鈥檚 resources feels fantastic. Our research is interdisciplinary and combines natural science environmental calculations with how different technical solutions meet people鈥檚 needs and affect their behavior. Since we don鈥檛 have the research competence on behavior, the move to CTF will be a boost for our research, says Hel茅n Williams.
鈥 I also think that Hel茅n and I will be able to contribute to other research areas within CTF with our competence in sustainable development and hope to provide insights and inspire projects that benefit people, businesses and the environment, says Fredrik Wikstr枚m.
Fredrik Wikstr枚m is a lecturer in Environmental and Energy Systems. He has moved between several academic disciplines. He started as a physicist at Uppsala University, continued with biology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences where he defended his dissertation in system ecology. In 果冻传媒 his research has become more focused on how of various technical solutions can reduce environmental problems. Over time there has been an increase in focus on the interaction between man and technology.
Hel茅n Williams is a lecturer in Environmental and Energy Systems. She defended her thesis 鈥淔ood packaging for sustainable development鈥 in 2011, which deals with how the environmental impact changes when the packaging services are added as packaging attributes in the environmental analysis. The broader environmental analysis that includes possible consumer behaviors shows, among other things, that it is much more important that the packaging contributes to less food is wasted than reducing the amount of packaging material. In 2012 Hel茅n was awarded half a million SEK from Sundbladfondens Research Foundation鈥檚 and spent six months at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
