MARCO SPRINGMANN

Environmental Change Institute

Dr Marco Springmann is a Senior Researcher in Environment and Health at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and a Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems, and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is interested in the health, environmental, and economic dimensions of the global food systems and often uses systems models to provide quantitative estimates on food-related questions.

The research questions Marco has worked on include what impacts climate change could have on diets and diet-related mortality; what impacts diets and dietary change have on climate change, environmental resource use, nutrition, and health; how our food system would need to change to stay within global environmental limits; and what policy measures could contribute to such a change.

Marco joined the ECI in 2022. Previously, he was a Senior Researcher on Environmental Sustainability and Public Health at the Nuffield Department of Population Health (2017-2022), and a researcher and James Martin Fellow of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food (2013-2016).

Marco holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oldenburg (Germany), a MSc in Sustainability from the University of Leeds (UK), and a MS in Physics from Stony Brook University (USA). He maintains international research collaborations and has conducted research placements at institutes in the USA, Australia, China, and Germany.