Erik Mathijs

Director at SFERE - Sustainable Food Economies Research Group @KU Leuven

Londerzeel, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

I want to contribute to the transition towards sustainable food economies in three ways: 1. To acquire insights into how system innovations emerge; 2. To understand the barriers hindering the development of system innovations; 3. To develop methods and tools to better measure the sustainability impact of system innovations. . Topics: Food systems; Sustainable agriculture; Carbon farming; Soil health; Sustainability impact assessment; Foresight; Protein shift; Healthy and sustainable diets; Food environment; Transdisciplinarity Associate Editor of Sustainability Science and Q-OPEN Chair of the Working Group on Sustainable Food Consumption, SAPEA Coordinator of the Mission Soil/Horizon Europe project SoilValues

Experience

  • Head Division of Agricultural Food & Resource Economics at KU Leuven - Departement Aard- en omgevingswetenschappen
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Director at SFERE - Sustainable Food Economies Research Group @KU Leuven
    2016 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (35 yrs 6 mos)
    • Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
      2006 - Present · 20 yrs 6 mos

      Teaching management and resource economics to bio-engineering students, doing applied research in agricultural and resource economics

    • Associate Professor
      2002 - 2006 · 4 yrs

      Vice-coordinator of Steunpunt Duurzame Landbouw (Stedula, Policy Research Centre for Sustainable Agriculture)

    • Assistant Professor
      2001 - 2002 · 1 yr

  • Vicedean of education at Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, KU Leuven
    Aug 2019 - Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Francqui Chair at Université catholique de Louvain
    Oct 2019 - Jul 2020 · 10 mos