Tomer Fishman
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T. Fishman
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- t.fishman@cml.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4405-2382
Tomer Fishman is an industrial ecologist whose research is focused towards understanding the materials that accumulate in our buildings, vehicles, infrastructure, consumer products, and green technologies, and how they form the interlinkages between well-being and welfare, economic development, and the environment. His work combines multiple approaches, including material stock and flow analysis, geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, econometrics, and dynamic models.
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Professional experience
Tomer Fishman is Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology at the institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University. He has several roles in the International Society for Industrial Ecology, including co-chair of the conferences committee and board member of the socioeconomic metabolism section. Prior to joining the CML, he was a lecturer at the school of Sustainability, Reichman University Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel.
He was at Yale University’s School of the Environment as postdoctoral associate at the Center for Industrial Ecology, where he conducted research on vehicles and wind turbines to assess the demand and supply of critical materials for green technologies, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute.
Tomer obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies and his Master of Engineering degrees from Nagoya University, Japan, on the subject of the accumulation of construction material stocks and its future trends and drivers. He has a B.A. in economics and East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Research topic
• Country- and global-scale drivers and forecasts of material stock & flow processes with dynamic models
• Mapping the materials stocked in buildings & infrastructure using geospatial (GIS) analysis and remote sensing
• Scenarios of demand and supply of critical materials in emerging “green” technologies
• Resource efficiency and circular economy
• Material stock & flow accounting and analysis
• Socio-economic metabolism
• Statistical, econometric, and data-driven analysis and forecasting
Assistant professor
- Science
- Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden
- CML/Industriele Ecologie
- Napiontek J., Fishman T., Pichler P.P., Heintz J. & Weisz H. (2025), live (a) little: GHG emissions from residential building materials for all 400 counties and cities of Germany until 2050 [Germany is trying to solve the housing crisis in many of its cities with new construction. At the same time it is trying to meet its greenhouse gas emissions commitments under the Paris Agreement. This study examines how measures to tackle the housing crisis affect the climate crisis by looking at whether material emissions from the construction sector are in line with Germany’s decarbonization targets. We project material demand and associated emissions from 2024 to 2050 using dynamic material flow analysis of a novel high-resolution building stock model based on synthetic population microdata. The model incorporates technological improvements in building design and material efficiency, finding that these fall short of carbon neutrality targets in 2045 and beyond. A reduction in per capita floor area is required to meet the targets. The high spatial resolution of this study allows the identification of reduction hotspots within Germany’s 400 cities and counties, emphasizing the need for location-specific pol], Resources, Conservation and Recycling 215: 108117.
- Wang P., Yang Y.-Y., Heidrich O., Chen L.-Y., Chen L.-H., Fishman T. & Chen W.-Q. (2024), Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies, Nature Geoscience 17: 94-102.
- Engelenburg M. van, Deetman S.P., Fishman T., Behrens P.A. & Voet E. van der (2024), TRIPI: a global dataset and codebase of the total resources in physical infrastructure encompassing road, rail, and parking, Data in Brief 54: 110387.
- Sun X., Hao H., Galeazzi C., Fishman T., Xun D., Ericsson M., Liu G., Hsieh I.-Y. L., Liu Z. & Zhao F. (2024), Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment, Nature Sustainability 7: 672-681.
- Pérez-Sánchez L.À., Fishman T. & Behrens P.A. (2024), Undoing the lock-in of suburban sprawl: towards an integrated modelling of materials and emissions in buildings and vehicles, Journal of Cleaner Production 451: 141954.
- Fishman T., Mastrucci A., Peled Y., Saxe S. & Ruijven B. van (2024), RASMI: Global ranges of building material intensities differentiated by region, structure, and function, Scientific Data 11: 418.
- Creutzig F., Simoes S. G., Leipold S., Berrill P., Azevedo I., Edelenbosch O., Fishman T., Haberl H., Hertwich E., Krey V., Lima A. T., Makov T., Mastrucci A., Milojevic-Dupont N., Nachtigall F., Pauliuk S., Silva M., Verdolini E., Vuuren D. van, Wagner F., Wiedenhofer D. & Wilson C. (2024), Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions, Nature Climate Change 14: 561-572.
- Wang H., Wang P., Zhang X., Chen W.-Q., Tzachor A., Fishman T., Schandl H., Acuto M., Yang Y., Lu Y., Böcher C., Ma F., Zhang C., Yue Q., Du T., Liu J. & Zhu Y.-G. (2024), Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010, Nature Geoscience 17: 833-836.
- Yamashita N., Fishman T., Kayo C. & Tanikawa H. (2024), An interlinked dynamic model of timber and carbon stocks in Japan's wooden houses and plantation forests, Sustainable Production and Consumption 52: 314-323.
- Neveau M.L., Meier W.R., Park H., Thompson M.J., Bibhanshu N., Böcher C., Fishman T., Weiss D., Chisholm M.F., Rios O. & Duscher G. (2024), Secondary phase increases the elastic modulus of a cast aluminum-cerium alloy, Communications Materials 5: 185.
- Igdalov S., Fishman T. & Blass V. (2024), Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock, Journal of Industrial Ecology 28(6): 1912-1925.
- Hou L., Fishman T., Wang R., Tzachor A., Wang H., Wang P., Chen W.-Q. & Voet E. van der (2024), A comprehensive accounting of construction materials in Belt and Road Initiative projects, Environmental Science and Technology 58(35): 15575-15586.
- Böcher C., Sprecher B. & Fishman T. (2024), Integrating material flow analysis and supply chain resilience analysis to study silicon carbide, Journal of Industrial Ecology 28(6): 1830-1841.
- Martin del Campo F., Singh S.J., Fishman T., Thomas A. & Drescher M. (2023), The Bahamas at risk: material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development, Journal of Industrial Ecology 27(4): 1165-1183.
- Wang R., Hertwich E.G., Fishman T., Deetman S.P., Behrens P.A., Chen W., Koning A. de, Xu M., Matus K., Ward H., Tukker A. & Zimmerman J.B. (2023), The legacy environmental footprints of manufactured capital, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(24): e2218828120.
- Ewijk S. van, Ashton W.S., Berrill P., Cao Z., Chertow M., Chopra S.S., Fishman T., Fitzpatrick C., Heidrich O., Leipold S., Ritter F., Sprecher B., Yao Y. & Myers R.J. (2023), 10 Insights from industrial ecology for the circular economy. Leiden, The Netherlands: International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE). [working paper].
- Wang R., Hertwich E.G., Fishman T., Deetman S.P., Behrens P.A., Chen W., Koning A. de, Xu M., Matus K., Ward H., Tukker A. & Zimmerman J.B. (2023), The legacy environmental footprints of manufactured capital, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(24): e2218828120.
- Martin del Campo F., Singh S.J., Fishman T., Thomas A., Noll D. & Drescher M. (2023), Can a small island nation build resilience?: The significance of resource‐use patterns and socio‐metabolic risks in The Bahamas, Journal of Industrial Ecology 27(2): 491-507.
- Nguyen T.C., Miatto A., Fishman T. & Kim J. (2023), The stock-service productivity of the European road transport infrastructure, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 193: 106961.
- Sims Z.C., Kesler M.S., Henderson H.B., Castillo E., Fishman T., Weiss D., Singleton P., Eggert R., McCall S.K. & Rios O. (2022), How cerium and lanthanum as coproducts promote stable rare earth production and new alloys, Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy 8: 1225–1234 .
- Ma F., Wang H., Schandl H., Fishman T., Tan X., Li Y., Shi L., Wang P. & Chen W.-Q. (2022), Exploring the relationship between economic complexity and resource efficiency, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 186: 106530.