About
Arpad Horvath is the Peirano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Head of the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Graduate Program, Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, and Director of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability Certificate Program. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Construction, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. Among several conference organizational roles, he was the Chair of the 2011 Industrial Ecology Conference.
Details
Arpad Horvath’s academic background includes civil and environmental engineering degrees and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1999. He was a participant at the first several Gordon Conferences on Industrial Ecology and was at the first organizational meetings of the International Society of Industrial Ecology. He has been an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Industrial Ecology since 2005. In 2005, he was awarded the Laudise Prize of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and in 2008 the Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board (Environmental Engineering Committee) between 2010 and 2015 and a member of the Science Advisory Board's Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee between 2011 and 2016.
Research Interests
Arpad Horvath's research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly answering important questions about civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. In particular, he has conducted studies on buildings, concrete and other construction materials, transportation systems, pavements, water and wastewater systems, electronics, and biofuels.
