About the Instructor: Dr. Mary Ann Curran Dr. Mary Ann Curran directs the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research program at the US EPA’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Curran has authored and co-authored numerous papers and book chapters which address the LCA concept and its applications. She has presented EPA’s activities in LCA-related research at technical meetings across the U.S. and in Europe, South America, South Africa, and Australia. As a recognized, international LCA expert, Dr. Curran works closely with the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which has been instrumental in advancing LCA awareness worldwide, and actively participates in the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative.
Dr. Curran serves as the Subject Editor (Cleaner Production Tools) for the Journal of Cleaner Production and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, and Management of Environmental Quality, and the advisory boards of the on-line journals Sustainability and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Dr. Curran has been with the EPA’s Office of Research and Development since 1980. She studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (BSChE 1980); Environmental Management and Policy at Lund University, Lund, Sweden (MSc 1996); and earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Erasmus University’s International PhD program on “Cleaner Products, Cleaner Production, Industrial Ecology and Sustainability” for her thesis entitled “Development of Life Cycle Methodology: A Focus on Co-Product Allocation” (2008). Dr. Curran is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). |
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