Jun.-Prof. Dr. Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva is a new member of the board of PRISMA after a convincing election by the members of PRISMA -Center for Sustainability Assessment and Policy. The board leads the center and now consists of four members with Jun.-Prof. Dijkstra-Silva, Prof. Jochen Schanze, Prof. Edeltraud Günther and Prof. Peter Saling.

Jun.-Prof. Dijkstra-Silva has held the Carlowitz Junior Professorship for Sustainability Assessment and Policy since 2022. She and her team conduct research on corporate sustainability, sustainability management, sustainability performance, measurement and assessment.

In current research projects they focus on Sustainability Impact, as well as Sustainability Assessment from a behavioral science perspective.

The website of Jun.-Prof. Dijkstra-Silva and the Carlowitz Junior Professorship provides further information.

PRISMA - Center for Sustainability Assessment and Policy

Entitled "PRISMA" (Performance and Policy Research In Sustainability Measurement and Assessment), the Center of Excellence for Sustainability Assessment and Policy was founded at TU Dresden on October 7, 2016 and has 38 full or associate members. The core activity fields of PRISMA are interdisciplinary concept and method development, teaching and training as well as consultancy for business, politics and society.

Based on the vision that sustainability in various disciplines will be measured and assessed, PRISMA - Centre for Sustainability Assessment and Policy hopes to combine strengths and make use of synergies. The focus is on questions of an economically successful and environmentally and socially sustainable long-term development, taking spatial and temporal conditions into account with innovate, interdisciplinary developed approaches to assessment. The objects of assessment range from systems, institutions, organizations, and individuals to the products and processing of materials. Scientists and researchers from the TU Dresden work and research for PRISMA - Centre for Sustainability Assessment and Policy, as well as those from partner institutions from the DRESDEN-concept and other partners for sustainability assessment.

Further information can be found on the website of PRISMA - Centre for Sustainability Assessment and Policy.