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- Professor, Eindhoven University of Technolgy
- Prof.dr.ir. Anna J Wieczorek is a sustainability transition scholar with over 25 years international experience. She contributes to theory development on: socio-technical system innovation, governance, sustainable development and innovation. She studies novel ways of organising systems through new market models (e.g. P2P) and new institutional arrangements. In that work she unpacks upscaling, experimentation by communities, co-creation and new business models. Her empirical domains are (smart) energy and mobility, and she sympathises with cities’ agendas. She studies renewables and new, multi-system technologies such as blockchain. In her research she uses transitions as my home discipline from where she takes trans-disciplinary ‘detours’ to other fields.
Being driven by the urgent need to act on sustainability, Anna regularly engages with practical contexts and aims to do research that matters. Her research is funded by NWO, EU, APN, NRC, DFG and Dutch Ministries. Currently, she leads a € 10,4M Interreg NWE project on Smart Community-Owned Renewable Energy (SmartCORE), a follow up of the €7,1M community-based Virtual Power Plant (cVPP). Both projects consider most effective ways to scale-up community energy initiatives. cVPP has won two prizes: the EU Citizens Award for Sustainable Energy Innovation and IE&IS Valorization Award. Anna also leads an NWO-funded ORAKLE project on organising learning and knowledge for energy transition in the Province of North Brabant.
From 2021 Anna has been appointed the TU/e Sustainability Ambassador. She is a regular guest speaker, guest editor, reviewer and she publishes in leading journals. Between 2017-2020 she served as an Associate Editor of Urban Transformations journal.
