Life Cycle Aspects of Nanoproducts, Nanostructured Materials, and Nanomanufacturing: Problem Definitions, Data Gaps, and Research Needs
Chicago, Illinois: November 5-6, 2009
Thomas L. Theis, University of Illinois, Chicago
Dr. Theis is the Director of the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is a Professor of Civil and Materials Engineering. His research interests include applications of life cycle assessment to manufacturing, land use planning, and in particular the life cycle of nanomanufacturing technologies and nanostructured materials.
Bhavik Bakshi, Ohio State University
Dr. Bakshi's research aims to understand and design sustainable systems. Current projects includes methods to account for the role of ecosystems in life cycle assessment, design of integrated technological-ecological systems, addressing uncertainty in LCA, and assessment of emerging technologies.
Delcie Durham, University of South Florida
Dr. Delcie Durham is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. Her research interests focus on environmentally benign design and manufacture, that is, creating the methodologies for producing products that are sustainable through their total life cycle. Dr. Durham is a co-PI on a recently awarded NSF GOALI project on producing nanocrystalline diamond coatings for machining processes and PI on an NSF award investigating biological cell analogy to integrate LCA with performance metrics for process design.
Vasilis Fthenakis, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University
Founder and director of the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University. He also leads the National PV Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Research Center operating at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) under the auspices of the DOE since 1982. Dr. Fthenakis leads international forums on LCA of photovoltaic technologies, under the auspices of European Union’s-Joint Research Center and the International Energy Agency (IEA). He is the author of 250 publications on energy and environmental issues, a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the International Energy Foundation.
Timothy Gutowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jackie Isaacs, Northeastern University
Thomas P. Seager, Rochester Institute of Technology
Founding faculty member of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York where he conducts research related to the environmental implications of alternative energy technologies, such as nano-enabled advanced battery systems. He has authored over 50 scholarly works related to industrial ecology and sustainability, including stochastic approaches to life-cycle assessment under conditions of high uncertainty.