Matilda Sandgren Watz
Associate Senior Lecturer
Department of Strategic Sustainable Development
Room H449B, Karlskrona
Research domain: Strategic Sustainable Development
Dr. Matilda Watz is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development. Her research interests consider organizational decision-making practices for sustainable product development from a requirements development and management perspective. As such, her work focuses on understanding and improving processes, methods, tools and routines for identification, modelling and selection of sustainability criteria and design requirements, and how these can be organized and and used and to guide concept selection and trade-off management for sustainable product development in different types of product development companies.
Towards Sustainable Product Development through a lens of Requirements – M.Watz (2022) PhD thesis presentation: Towards Sustainable Product Development through a lens of Requirements – M.Watz PhD pres. 220602.mp4
Selected publications
- Watz M. (2020) Using Group Model Building to Foster Learning for Strategic Sustainable Development. Sustainability. 12(20), 8350.
- Watz, M., & Hallstedt, S. (2020). Group model building with causal loop diagrams to foster capabilities for sustainable design and product development. Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference, 1, 2207-2216. doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.53
- Watz, M., & Hallstedt, S. I. (2020). Profile model for management of sustainability integration in engineering design requirements. Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, 119155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119155
- Watz, M. (2019). Utilizing requirements to support sustainable product development: Introductory approaches for strategic sustainability integration (Doctoral dissertation, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola).
- Siiskonen, M., Watz, M., Malmqvist, J., & Folestad, S. (2019, July). Decision Support for Re-designed Medicinal Products-Assessing consequences of a customizable product design on the value chain from a sustainability perspective. In Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design (Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 867-876). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.91
Latest publications
- Ola Isaksson, Sophie Hallstedt, Matilda Watz, Adam Mallalieu, Håkan Björklund, "Roadmap to enable sustainable and circular designs in collaborative automotive ecosystems", Proceedings of the Design Society, Volume 5: ICED25, Cambridges Institutes Press, 2025
- Matilda Watz, Sophie Hallstedt, "Depth and Detail or Quick and Easy?", EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I, pp. 413-427, Springer Nature, 2024
- Adam Mallalieu, Sophie Isaksson Hallstedt, Ola Isaksson, Matilda Watz, Lars Almefelt, "Barriers and enablers for the adoption of sustainable design practices using new design methods – Accelerating the sustainability transformation in the manufacturing industry", Sustainable Production and Consumption, ISSN 2352-5509, Vol. 51, pp. 137-158, Elsevier, 2024
- Carl Nils Konrad Toller Melén, Matilda Watz, "Collaborative Value Exploration for Early Product-Service Systems Design", Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0, ISSN 18684238, pp. 240-252, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023
- Adam Mallalieu, Julian Martinsson Bonde, Matilda Watz, Johanna Wallin Nylander, Sophie Hallstedt, Ola Isaksson, "DERIVE AND INTEGRATE SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA IN DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS", Proceedings of the Design Society, EISSN 2732-527X, pp. 1197-1206, Cambridge University Press, 2023
Current projects
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