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
- Jennifer Woofter, Jesko Schulte, Matilda Watz, "AI-assisted leading sustainability criteria development", Proceedings of the Design Society, EISSN 2732-527X, pp. 1671-1680, Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Jesko Schulte, Sophie Hallstedt, Matilda Watz, "Bridging academia and industry", Proceedings of the Design Society, EISSN 2732-527X, pp. 817-826, Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Jesko Schulte, Matilda Watz, Cecilia Braga, Jennifer Woofter, Patricia Lagun Mesquita, "Evaluating two approaches for sustainability criteria identification and assessment in support of early product development decisions", Proceedings of the Design Society, EISSN 2732-527X, pp. 1541-1550, Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Jesko Schulte, Sophie Hallstedt, Matilda Watz, Irene Lo Vecchio, Matteo Caprioli, Silvia Zanazzi, "Impact of sustainable product development tools through intermediaries", Journal of Cleaner Production, ISSN 0959-6526, EISSN 1879-1786, Vol. 572, Elsevier, 2026
- Adam Mallalieu, Ola Isaksson, Sophie Hallstedt, Matilda Watz, Giliam Dokter, Lars Almefelt, "Sharing and Managing Sustainability Information and Data in Collaborative Ecosystems—Insights From Testing a Novel Assessment Method With the Automotive Industry", Business Strategy and the Environment, ISSN 0964-4733, EISSN 1099-0836, John Wiley & Sons, 2026
Current projects
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