Adisa Azapagic | |
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Born | Adisa Azapagić 10 April 1961[2] |
Alma mater | University of Tuzla University of Surrey (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sustainability Life-cycle assessment Chemical engineering Corporate social responsibility[1] |
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Thesis | Environmental System Analysis: The Application of Linear Programming to Life Cycle Assessment |
Website | www |
Adisa Azapagić MBE FREng FRSC FIChemE[2] (born 10 April 1961) is a chemical engineer and academic.[1][3] She has served as Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester since 2006.[4]
Azapagic was born in 1961 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] She attended the University of Tuzla, and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering.[5] She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Surrey, and earned her PhD on Environmental System Analysis using Life-cycle assessmentin 1996. [6]
Azapagic remained at the University of Surrey for thirteen years before moving to the University of Manchester.[7] She leads the Sustainable Industrial Systems research group at the University of Manchester.[8] She runs several industry collaborations, including projects with Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, Whirlpool Corporation.[5] In 2015 she won the University of Manchester award for Outstanding Benefit to Society.[9] Azapagic developed software to calculate carbon footprint at the University of Manchester (CCaLC).[10]
Her research interests lie in engineering for sustainable development, which includes sustainable technology, life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting.[4][11] In 2018 she demonstrated that the UK's chocolate industry generates the same amount of greenhouse gases as Malta.[12]
Azapagic is the founding editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Sustainable Production and Consumption.[13] She has written three books,[3] looking at sustainable development and polymers.[14]
Azapagic was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2013.[15] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to sustainability and carbon footprinting.[16][17] She was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași.[5] She is part of the all-party manufacturing group.[18] She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.[19] In 2010 she was awarded the Institution of Chemical Engineers prize for Outstanding Achievements in Chemical and Process Engineering. She won the GlaxoSmithKline Innovation prize in 2011.[20]