Susana Santos

DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability is a cross-departmental research hub at the Technical University of Denmark. The centre develops new methodologies and approaches to strengthen fact-based understanding and evaluation of routes to sustainability and the role that technologies can play as enablers or barriers. The centre introduces proportions into the sustainability discourse and helps us focus on the most pressing problems. It informs research and strategy on technology for a sustainable transition. It delivers data-driven insights into the environmental sustainability consequences of consumption patterns and lifestyles. It develops clear roadmaps towards a sustainable society and offers advice on technology-based solutions that can provide for societal needs while operating within the tolerance levels of the environment. The centre takes a systemic perspective on technological solutions. It addresses both the climate crisis, the resource decoupling challenge, the toxicity crisis, and the biodiversity crisis in the development of science-based methodology and analyses.