EXPERIENCE |
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September 2025 - present | Assistant Professor in Input-Output Analysis
Universiteit Leiden, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) |
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March 2025 - June 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher on Transition Pathways
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
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July 2022 - February 2025 | Research Fellow in Consumption-Based Accounting
University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment |
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January 2023 - February 2025 | Research consultant: - Calculating the UK’s official Consumption-based Footprint 2024, October 2023 - March 2025
Updating the UK’s MRIO model and calculating the UK’s official consumption-based footprint for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs - Consumption-based Footprint Indicators for the UK, May 2023 - March 2024
Creating novel indicators for the UK’s consumption-based footprint for the UK’s Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs - London Data Lead, January 2023 - May 2023
Lead for London part of ‘Actionable Data Indicators for Consumption-Based Emissions’ project by C40, with EcoDataLab, Greater London Authority, and ReLondon - Estimating and Analysing Consumption-based Carbon Footprints of Bristol Neighbourhoods
Creating consumption-based emissions estimates and a report for Arup and Bristol City Council
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September 2019 - March 2025 | Teaching Assistant at the University of Leeds Module assistant and module demonstrator teaching quantitative methods in the School of Geography, the School of Medicine, and the School of Earth and Environment |
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May 2022 - June 2022 | Visiting Researcher, May-June 2022
University of Barcelona, Department of Economics |
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EDUCATION |
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September 2018 - June 2023 | ESRC-funded MSc + PhD (2+2), Data Analytics and Society CDT
University of Leeds, School of Geography, grant number: ES/S50161X/1
PhD Estimating and evaluating spatial and longitudinal consumption-based emissions of UK households
MSc Data Analytics and Society (Distinction) |
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September 2017 - August 2018 | MSc Sustainable Cities (Distinction)
King’s College London, Department of Geography |
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September 2013 - June 2017 | BSc Psychology, with outside papers in Sociology (Hons, 1st Class)
University of Glasgow, School of Psychology |
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PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES |
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- Kilian, L., Owen, A., Newing, A. and Ivanova D. 2023. ‘Achieving emission reductions without furthering social inequality: Lessons from the 2007 economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic’. Energy Research & Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103286
- Trendl, A., Owen, A., Vomfell, L., Kilian, L., Gathergood, J., Stewart, N. and Leake, D. 2023. ‘Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data’. Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13351
- Kilian, L., Owen, A., Newing, A. and Ivanova D. 2022. ‘Exploring transport consumption-based emissions: Spatial patterns, social factors, well-being, and policy implications’. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141911844
- Kilian, L., Owen, A., Newing, A. and Ivanova D. 2022. ‘Microdata selection for estimating household consumption-based emissions’. Economic Systems Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2022.2034139
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REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS |
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- Abrahao, G., Bauer, N., Kilian, L., Kriegler, E., Piontek, F., and Richters, O., 2025. ‘Piloting a new research agenda for managing the global commons within planetary boundaries’. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research.
- Kilian, L., Owen, A., and Hoekstra, R. 2025. Improving the UKMRIO’s material footprint. ESCoE. [Online]. https://www.escoe.ac.uk/publications/improving-the-ukmrios-material-footprint/
- Kilian, L., Owen, A., and Hoekstra, R. 2025. Improving the UKMRIO’s trade data. ESCoE. [Online]. https://www.escoe.ac.uk/publications/improving-the-ukmrios-trade-data/
- Owen, A., and Kilian, L., 2025. ‘UK and England's carbon footprint to 2022’. Official Statistics, UK: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. [Online]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-carbon-footprint
- Owen, A., and Kilian, L., 2025. ‘2025 Data Release of Consumption- based Accounts for the UK: Summary of Methods’ [Online].
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66431758bd01f5ed32793a2c/UK_consumption_account_methodology.pdf - Owen, A., and Kilian, L., 2024. ‘UK and England's carbon footprint to 2021’. Official Statistics, UK: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. [Online].
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-carbon-footprint - Owen, A., and Kilian, L., 2024. ‘2024 Data Release of Consumption- based Accounts for the UK: Summary of Methods’ [Online].
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66431758bd01f5ed32793a2c/UK_consumption_account_methodology.pdf - Gould, B., Chang, K., Kilian, L., Rakes, K., Fraser, C., Bundgaard, K., Foley, S., Rao, A., Ali, Z., Malone, S., McKenzie, K., MacWhinney, R., Binder, S., de Hoz, M., Jones, C., Broekhoff, D., Moran, D., Herbert, Y. 2023. ‘Cutting Emissions from Consumption: Indicators are Tools for Action’ [Online]. https://c40.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#36000001Enhz/a/Hp000000JWXt/L.rRQKK2VwY3uA5npfjpW.hWtSVkkqIFAPhXgj9eQHc
- Owen, A., and Kilian, L., 2023. ‘UK and England's carbon footprint to 2020’. Official Statistics, UK: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. [Online].
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-carbon-footprint - Owen, A., Kilian, L., Norman, J., and Barrett, J. 2023. ‘2023 Data Release of Consumption- based Accounts for the UK: Summary of Methods’ [Online].
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1160473/Summary_of_Methods_2023_-_for_publishing.pdf - Owen, A. and Kilian, L. 2020. ‘Consumption-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Bristol 2016’ [Online]. Leeds.
https://www.bristolonecity.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Consumption-based-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-for-Bristol.pdf. - Kilian, L., Owen, A. and Newing, A. 2019. Bespoke Report on Consumption-Based Carbon Footprints in Bristol created for ARUP and Bristol City Council.
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AWARDS |
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- Nominated for the best paper award from the Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2024 for Trendl, A., Owen, A., Vomfell, L., Kilian, L., Gathergood, J., Stewart, N. and Leake, D. 2023. ‘Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data’.
- First place for Research Design & Methods in the Outstanding Postgraduate Paper Competition organised by the RGS-IBG Energy Geographies Research Group (EnGRG), 2022
Title: Effective mitigation of transport emissions in London neighbourhoods: spatial patterns, social factors, and wellbeing - Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Prize for First Place in the Flash Presentation Competition at the International Input-Output Association Conference, 2022
Title: Consumption-based emission changes in the 2007 economic crisis and the 2020 lockdowns - Best Thesis in Sustainable Cities, King’s College London, Department of Geography, 2018
Title: Untangling the Development of Children’s Citizenship in and through Play in Urban Public Spaces
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CONFERENCE TALKS |
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- The Green Gender Gap? Investigating the effects of gender and age on consumption-based emissions, Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative Europe Conference 2025, Lund, Sweden
- Quantifying the impacts of MRIO data on emissions, Spanish Conference on Input-Output Analysis 2024, Gijon, Spain
- Comparing emissions embodied in imports from four global MRIO databases, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Conference 2024, London, UK
- Achieving emission reductions without furthering social inequality: Lessons from the 2007 economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, Inequality and the Environment Symposium 2024, Paris, France
- The Impact of Rebound Effects on Emissions of UK Households, International Input-Output Association Conference 2023, Alghero, Italy
- Changes in income of different household types and their impact on UK consumption-based emissions and climate policy, International Input-Output Association Conference 2022, Langkawi, Malaysia
- Estimating Neighbourhood Greenhouse Gas Emissions using the Living Costs and Food Survey, Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2022, UK
- Exploring spatial patterns of transport emissions and their social drivers in London neighbourhoods, American Association for Geographers Annual Meeting 2022, New York, US
- Predicting the Impacts of COVID-19-related Income Changes on Consumption-Based Emissions of UK Neighbourhoods, GIS Research UK Conference 2021, Cardiff, UK
- Evaluating and comparing microdata to assess greenhouse gas emissions of UK neighbourhoods, GWS Input-Output Workshop 2020, Osnabrück, Germany
- Using consumer data to understand household carbon footprints in Bristol, Regional Science Association International - British Irish Section 2019, Cambridge, UK
- Understanding patterns of consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions in Bristol, GIS Research UK Conference 2019, Newcastle, UK
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CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
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- Impacts of gender and age on consumption-based emissions, European Society for Ecological Economics Conference 2024, Pontevedra, Spain
- How does choice of data change greenhouse gas emission estimates?, School of Geography Postgraduate Conference 2021, Leeds, UK
- How do microdata affect greenhouse gas emissions estimates? A comparison of consumption microdata for UK neighbourhoods, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, Seattle, US
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SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE |
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July 2023 - December 2023 | Academic supervisor for internship, Priestley International Centre for Climate and Leeds International Piano Competition Topic: Evaluating and reducing the carbon footprint of the Leeds International Piano Competition |
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OUTREACH & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT |
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2025 | Invited blog post: Owen, A., Kilian, L., and Hoekstra, R. 2025. The UK’s hidden carbon footprint: Net-zero, climate change and the environment. https://www.escoe.ac.uk/the-uks-hidden-carbon-footprint/ |
2024 - 2025 | Early Career Representative for the Faculty of Environment Athena SWAN Equality and Inclusion Unit - Working towards gender equity and inclusion at the University of Leeds
- Contributing to renewal of Silver Award in 2025
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2024 | Invited blog post: Kilian, L. 2024. Perspectives from Paris: The 2024 Inequality and the Environment Symposium. https://medium.com/@energy_3127/perspectives-from-paris-the-2024-inequality-and-the-environment-symposium-58808b47b5d8 |
2021 | School of Geography Postgraduate Student Conference - Conference organiser
- Chairing ‘Social Sciences’ session
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2020 - 2021 | Data Science Study Group, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, - Organising and facilitating a study group for PGR students and interns
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2017 - 2018 | PGT Urban Futures Reading Group, King’s College London, Department of Geography - Organised and ran reading group events for PGT students
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SKILLS |
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Programming languages and technical skills: Python, R, QGIS, MS Excel, LaTeX |
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS |
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- International Input-Output Association
- International Society for Ecological Economics
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