Florian Huber

I am a PhD candidate at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, working on the political economy and ecology of copper metabolism. My research focuses on constructing a large-scale Physical Supply–Use Table (PSUT) to track copper throughout its life cycle — from extraction and manufacturing to end-of-life processes and recycling.

To reconcile heterogeneous data sources and enable flexible disaggregation across analytical dimensions, I am developing pySUTO — a generalisable, open-source Python library for Supply–Use Table optimisation.

Beyond the physical accounting framework, I contextualise copper metabolism through critical political economy approaches to analyse how social structures configure and shape material flows.