Deniz Koca

Assist. Prof. at Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)

Coordinator & Director of Studies, BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University.

Deniz Koca is an Assist. Prof. at Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Geobiosphere Science, M.Sc. in Environmental Studies & Sustainability Science, and B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering.

His main expertise lies in applied systems analysis, system dynamics modelling and facilitation of stakeholder participatory group modelling process.

He has been involved in various transdisciplinary research projects with the main task of analyzing, interpreting, modelling, simulating and communicating alternative scenarios of complex dynamic environmental and socio-economic issues with a systems approach and within the sustainability criteria. Deniz has been teaching systems analysis and system dynamics modelling courses on undergraduate, gradute and post-graduate levels.  

Since 2017, Deniz is the Coordinator and Director of Studies of BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School within the CEC.

He is a Donella Meadows Fellow and member of the Balaton Group, also known as the International Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC).