Julia Sborz
About
I graduated in Energy Engineering at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brazil) with an exchange studies period at the University of Toronto (UofT, Canada) funded by the Brazilian government through the Science without Borders program.
During my Master's in Civil Engineering at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC, Brazil), I learned about data analysis and household resource (more specifically water) consumption. I worked in the industry with solar power plant development, data analysis, and pricing.
For my PhD at NTNU, I am interested in household resource use and how it could be less environmentally harmful.
Research
I study how urbanisation (or population density) affects (or not!) the carbon and material footprint of households in Europe :) To do so, I use Exiobase and Eurostat's Household Budget Survey (HBS). My methodology is based on Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO), enriched with LCA and pricing data when necessary.
My work involves a lot of statistics (and R), data analysis, and observing the numbers behind (un)sustainable behaviour. I am particularly motivated to investigate sustainable justice and fair distribution of burdens and benefits, and what trade-offs/co-benefits we can find on our material dependency due to the energy transition (and the huge focus of sustainability on carbon emissions).
Publications
Publications related to my PhD
Sborz, J., & Ottelin, J. (2025). European household material footprints decrease with the degree of urbanisation if passenger mobility infrastructure is considered. Environmental Research Letters, 20(3), 034050.
2025
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Sborz, Julia;
Ottelin, Juudit.
(2025)
European household material footprints decrease with the degree of urbanisation if passenger mobility infrastructure is considered.
Environmental Research Letters
Academic article
2024
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Sborz, Julia;
Cominato, Carolina;
Kalbusch, Andreza;
Henning, Elisa.
(2024)
Individualized metering and the influence of other endogenous and exogenous factors on water consumption in social housing.
Aqua
Academic article
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Sborz, Julia;
Kalbusch, Andreza;
Henning, Elisa.
(2024)
Factors that determine hot and cold-water consumption in social housing apartments.
Architectural Engineering and Design Management
Academic article
Journal publications
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Sborz, Julia;
Ottelin, Juudit.
(2025)
European household material footprints decrease with the degree of urbanisation if passenger mobility infrastructure is considered.
Environmental Research Letters
Academic article
-
Sborz, Julia;
Cominato, Carolina;
Kalbusch, Andreza;
Henning, Elisa.
(2024)
Individualized metering and the influence of other endogenous and exogenous factors on water consumption in social housing.
Aqua
Academic article
-
Sborz, Julia;
Kalbusch, Andreza;
Henning, Elisa.
(2024)
Factors that determine hot and cold-water consumption in social housing apartments.
Architectural Engineering and Design Management
Academic article