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Member Spotlights: Matan Mayer
Dr. Matan Mayer is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Design at IE University in Madrid. He is an architect and a construction technologist whose research focuses on reducing environmental impacts of buildings and cities through an implementation of life cycle ori...
Member Spotlights: Kangkang Tong
Kangkang (KK) Tong is a Post-doc at the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota. Her interest is about cities, infrastructure, and sustainability. Her research aims to investigate how and to what extent cities can contribute to sustainable deve...
Member Spotlights: Shoshanna Saxe
My central research question is investigating how the design and provision of infrastructure interact with societal scale goals (particularly around the environment). The goal is to find quantitative methods and tools to better design, build and create policy around...
Member Spotlights: Tim Baynes
I have broad academic and research experience that I like to think brings some creative thinking on open ended problems of urban sustainability and I particularly like to bring ideas from other disciplines and see how/if they work somewhere else: 'urban metabolism' and 'industrial ecol...
Member Spotlights: Lynnette Widder
I am trained in architecture and urbanism, with my doctoral work focused on mid-20th century construction history. Practicing architecture in Switzerland and Germany through the 1990s and early 2000s, I was involved in early work on embodied energy calculations, energy efficient buildi...
Member Spotlights: Mehdi Zahed
I am an architect, Ph.D. student, and educator living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I have a great passion for teaching and learning sustainability topics in construction sector. My research area relates to Building Information Modeling as a tool for LCA. I have developed and currently...
Member Spotlights: Zicheng (Kevin) Bi
Zicheng (Kevin) Bi is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a life cycle assessment (LCA) specialist working at the nexus of emerging clean vehicle technologies and transportation infrastructure networks. His research ex...
Member Spotlights: Joe F. Bozeman III
Mr. Bozeman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy working under the Director, Dr. Thomas L. Theis. His current research focuses on climate change adaptation as it relates to the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus. Specifically, he explores how U.S. food ...
Member Spotlights: Ben Amor
Ben Amor is an associate professor at the department of civil and building engineering at the University of Sherbrooke and an adjunct professor at the department of mechanical engineering at Laval University (Quebec). From Polytechique Montreal (CIRAIG), Ben holds a BSc in Environmenta...
Member Spotlights: Sara Meerow
Dr. Sara Meerow is a new assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. She is an interdisciplinary social-ecological systems scientist working at the intersection of urban geography and planning. Her research tackle...
Great SUS Section Meeting at ISIE GRC
Dear SUS and ISIE members,
The Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) section met in Les Diablerets on May 23 during the ISIE Gordon Research Conference.
The meeting offered a great opportunity to go over the section activities since ISIE 2017 in Chicago, including our New York wo...
Member Spotlights: Andreas Froemelt
Andreas Froemelt recently defended his dissertation and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Ecological Systems Design (Prof. Stefanie Hellweg) at ETH Zurich. The goal of his dissertation was to investigate and develop new approaches that would be able to provide a thorough informa...