Position: Professor, Department of Product Design
Title/Education: M.Sc. Applied Econometrics (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ph.D. Industrial Design Engineering (Delft University of Technology)
Address: IPD, Kolbjørn Hejes vei 2b, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Phone:             +47 73 59 01 02       
Fax: +47 73 59 01 10
E-mail: casper.boks(at)ntnu.no

I worked as an assistant professor in the Design for Sustainability Program at the Industrial Design Engineering School, TU Delft, the Netherlands, until 2006. In 2004, I was a visiting professor at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden.

Since January 2007, I am professor in product design at the Department of Product Design. My research interests include sustainable product innovation and education, and have focused on the organisational and managerial aspects of successful implementation of sustainable product innovation in the electronics industry.

In the academic year 2008/2009 I acted as interim director of NTNU's Industrial Ecology program, a multidisciplinary international master, PhD and research program.

My special interest goes out to PhD research in sustainable product innovation; a Nordforsk grant has made it possible to organise, in 2007, five meetings on this topic with about 10 colleagues from universities such as Technical University of Denmark, Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University of Technology, and the Helsinki School of Economics.

I (have) supervise(d) a number of PhD students on various related topics, such as ecodesign management, probing and learning in the fuel cell industry, sustainable packaging design, human factors in ecodesign, design for sustainable behaviour, cross cultural aspects in mobile communication products, environmental information flows from a stakeholder perspective, and ecodesign of textiles.