About my research

I hold a degree in Environmental Engineering, a postgraduate degree in Economics, an MSc in Ecology, Management and Modelling of Marine Resources, and a double PhD in Environmental Engineering (Instituto Superior Técnico) and Life and Earth Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Since 2007, I have been Assistant Professor in Environment and Energy at IST, University of Lisbon. At MARETEC, my research focuses on the biophysical foundations of metabolism in societies and organisms. I have contributed to both theoretical developments and applications of societal exergy analysis (SEA) at sectoral, national, and global scales, and to the development and application of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory.

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  1. Article
    Electricity Use in Computing, 1975–2022
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. SousaRicardo Pinto
  2. Article
    Can Hydrogen Decarbonize Steel? Insights from Energy and Efficiency Analysis
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  3. Article
    Historical evolution of transport technologies
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  4. Article
    Global Transport Emissions
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  5. Article
    Pricing Energy Services
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  6. Article
    Designing MEMME – a conceptual Material and Energy Metabolism Model for Economies
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  7. Article
    From Empirical Models to Theory: Lessons from Dynamic Energy Budget
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  8. Article
    Energy Use and Emissions in Global Rail, 1840–2020
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  9. Article
    Electrification and Decarbonization in Portugal (1960–2016)
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  10. Article
    Energy communities in Italy and Portugal
    Prof Rui CastroAssistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  11. Article
    Insights from the Evolution of Transport Technologies, 1800-2020: Energy Use, Transitions, and Efficiency
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  12. Article
    World Electricity Efficiency, 1900–2017
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. SousaRicardo Pinto
  13. Article
    From Electrification to Decarbonization: Insights from Portugal's Experience (1960-2016)
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  14. Article
    How the Shift from Human and Animal Labor to Machines Changed Agriculture Since 1800
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  15. Article
    Are UK cars becoming more resource efficient? (1960–2015)
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  16. Article
    Climate change impacts on fish growth and reproduction
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  17. Article
    The Rise and Stall of World Electricity Efficiency:1900-2017, Results and Implication for the Renewables Transition
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  18. Article
    Are Batteries Profitable in the Iberian Electricity Market?
    Prof Rui CastroAssistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  19. Article
    Why Primary Energy Intensity Differs Across European Countries
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  20. Article
    Global Resource Use and Economic Development: 1900-2010
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  21. Article
    A Modelling Approach to Reducing Livestock Emissions
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  22. Article
    Steel Use and Mobility in UK Transport (1960–2015)
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  23. Article
    Climate Change and the Future Distribution of Marine Resources
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  24. Article
    Decoupling Growth from Emissions and Resource Use: What We Know So Far I
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  25. Article
    Decoupling Growth from Emissions and Resource Use: What We Know So Far II
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  26. Article
    Resource Efficiency in the UK Steel Sector (1960–2009)
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  27. Article
    When Climate Change and Pollution Act Together in the Ocean
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  28. Article
    What 100 years of electricity efficiency and emissions can teach us about the energy transition
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  29. Article
    Making Exergy-Based Sustainability Assessment More Consistent
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  30. Article
    Useful Exergy and Economic Growth: A Better Way to Model the Economy
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  31. Article
    The Need for Robust, Consistent Methods in Societal Exergy Accounting
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  32. Article
    A review of the use of exergy to evaluate the sustainability of fossil fuels and non-fuel mineral depletion
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  33. Article
    Material Services with Both Eyes Wide Open
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  34. Article
    Do the Different Exergy Accounting Methodologies Provide Consistent or Contradictory Results? A Case Study with the Portuguese Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Sector
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  35. Article
    Exergy Replacement Cost of Fossil Fuels: Closing the Carbon Cycle
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  36. Article
    The universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  37. Article
    Physics of metabolic organization
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  38. Article
    Insights on Energy Transitions in Mexico from the Analysis of Useful Exergy 1971–2009
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  39. Article
    How Much Detail Should We Use to Compute Societal Aggregated Exergy Efficiencies?
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  40. Article
    Structure and dynamics of useful work along the agriculture-industry-services transition: Portugal from 1856 to 2009
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  41. Article
    Useful Work Transitions in Portugal, 1856–2009
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  42. Article
    A new perspective on the growth pattern of the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) through DEB theory
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  43. Article
    Decomposition of useful work intensity: The EU (European Union)-15 countries from 1960 to 2009
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  44. Article
    DEB parameters estimation for Mytilus edulis
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  45. Article
    Modelling feeding processes in bivalves: A mechanistic approach
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  46. Article
    Life Engine - Creating Artificial Life for Scientific and Entertainment Purposes
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  47. Article
    Stylized facts in microalgal growth: interpretation in a dynamic energy budget context
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  48. Article
    Dynamic energy budget theory restores coherence in biology
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  49. Article
    Comment on "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny"
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  50. Article
    From food‐dependent statistics to metabolic parameters, a practical guide to the use of dynamic energy budget theory
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  51. Article
    From empirical patterns to theory: a formal metabolic theory of life
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  52. Article
    Thermodynamics of organisms in the context of dynamic energy budget theory
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  53. Article
    Equilibrium econophysics: A unified formalism for neoclassical economics and equilibrium thermodynamics
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa
  54. Article
    Is neoclassical microeconomics formally valid? An approach based on an analogy with equilibrium thermodynamics
    Assistant Professor Tânia A. Sousa