Prof. Annie Levasseur
Annie Levasseur is Professor within the Deparment of Construction Engineering at École de technologie supérieure in Montréal (Canada), and Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Measuring the Impact of Human Activities on Climate Change. She is also the Scientific Director of the Centre for Intersectoral Studies and Research on Circular Economy (CERIEC). She is a Chemical Engineer by training and has worked in the oil refining industry for eight years prior to her academic career. She is an expert of the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, and her research focuses mainly on climate change impacts, including issues related to indicators, biogenic carbon and timing of emissions. In addition to her research activities on environmental impacts modeling, she teaches life cycle assessment and the integration of environmental and sustainability aspects in engineering projects.