Announcements
Our highlight this week: Weiwei Mo
Weiwei Mo is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of New Hampshire (UNH). She got her BS degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China (2008), and her MS (2011) and PhD (2012) degrees from Universit...
Our highlight this week: Zhi Cao
Zhi Cao is an Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp. His research interests mainly revolve around examining the sustainability of urban systems (e.g., urban infrastructure, built environment, and waste recovery and recycling) through a lens of socio...
2nd Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability Unconference (AScUS 2021) - Call for Contributions
2nd Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability (AScUS 2021)
An Unconference on Urban Sustainability to Generate Actionable Solutions
June 1-4, online
https://ascus2021.metabolismofcities.org/
The 2nd Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability (AScUS) uncon...
Our highlight this week: Alexandre Milovanoff
Alex is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. He uses systems-level approaches to answer complex environmental questions. Alex is passionate about the energy systems (transport, electricity, residential) and his ultimate research's goal is to build actionable plans ...
Our highlight this week: Santiago Perez
Santiago is a PhD candidate at Université de Technologie de Troyes. Born and raised in Colombia, where Santiago graduated in Anthropology and Environmental Engineering (also where he got his magical realism), Santiago has lived and worked in Canada, Luxembour...
New Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) Board
Dear ISIE members,
The Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) Section has a new Board that will be effective on January 1, 2021:
Melissa Bilec: Co-Chair
Hua Cai: Co-Chair
Oliver Heidrich: Treasurer and COP26 Activities Coordinator
Joe Bozeman III: Awards Coordinator and Profe...
Member Spotlights: Carol Maione
Carol is a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her work has spaced from biospheric down to molecular understanding and quantification of material flows, as well as their impacts on the environment. Carol’s doctoral research...
Our highlight this week: Burak Sen
Burak Sen has recently earned a Civil Engineering Ph.D. degree from the University of Central Florida, USA. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated the potential environmental, energy, and socioeconomic impacts of emerging transportation technologies incorporating different aspects s...
Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Conference 2020 - NOW ONLINE!
Dear ISIE members, The Chair of Societal Transition and Circular Economy at the University of Freiburg (Germany) is hosting the Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Conference 2020, a small event which was meant to take place at the Uni Freiburg in March 2021. Given the restrictions aris...
Read MoreOur highlight this week: Stephanie Cordova
Stephanie is a Environmental Analyst at Solid waste management public company of Quito. She wants to apply industrial ecology in the urban environment of cities in developing countries like Ecuador. She thinks it is vita...
Our highlight this week: Izhar Hussain Shah
Izhar successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in May, 2020 at University of Ulsan, South Korea and is actively reaching out to people for future collaborations/opportunities. With his "industrial ecology" journey so far, he has developed good analytical skills covering both theory...
"Data harvesters" needed to trial new urban metabolism data platform
Within the open source community of Metabolism of Cities we have been working over the last year on a new version of our data platform. We are excited to launch this new version in the coming months. In preparation for this launch, we are setting up data portals for a selected number of cities, in ...
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