Life Cycle Assessment
Learn moreEnvironmental assessment of chemical products, emerging technologies, and industrial systems across life cycle stages.
About Me
Technical sustainability methods for real-world decisions.
I am a chemical engineer and sustainability scientist working at the intersection of sustainability, technology, and business, where quantitative analysis can help organizations make better decisions in the face of complex environmental and economic tradeoffs.
I am particularly interested in developing methodologies and decision-support frameworks that transform technical data into practical insights for engineers, researchers, and business leaders. That interest has shaped my career across both industry and academia, leading me to work on problems ranging from refinery process optimization to life cycle assessment, product carbon footprints, carbon accounting, and emerging sustainability technologies. Regardless of the application, my work is driven by a common objective: developing rigorous, transparent, and practical approaches for evaluating technologies and supporting more informed decision-making.
Outside of work, I enjoy traveling and exploring how place, culture, and lived experience shape the way people understand success, opportunity, and belonging. This interest connects to my TEDx talk on growing up as a third-culture kid and how that experience shaped my understanding of success:Watch “Knowing Success”.
Core Expertise
My work centers on methods that make environmental assessment more transparent, consistent, and useful for technical and strategic decisions.
Circular Economy
Learn moreAssessment of circular resource pathways, recovered products, and systems that turn waste streams into useful materials and lower-impact products.
Techno-Economic Analysis
Learn moreEvaluation of early-stage technologies through process, cost, scale-up, and commercialization considerations.
Decision Analysis
Learn moreUncertainty analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, and multi-criteria decision frameworks for sustainability problems.
Industry Experience
My sustainability assessment work spans research and industry contexts where chemical systems, resource recovery, and emissions accounting intersect.
Chemicals and Materials
Learn moreProduct-level sustainability assessment for chemical products, manufacturing pathways, and emerging lower-carbon technologies.
Wastewater and Resource Recovery
Learn moreEvaluation of technologies that recover nutrients, reduce emissions, and create value from wastewater and waste nitrogen streams.
Refining and Process Operations
Learn moreProcess engineering experience with hydroprocessing, refinery operations, process optimization, and industrial constraints.
Bio-Based Feedstocks
Learn moreEvaluation of renewable and alternative feedstock pathways, including how feedstock choices influence carbon footprints and sustainability tradeoffs.
Circular Economy
Learn moreAssessment of circular resource pathways, recovered products, and metrics for comparing environmental and economic tradeoffs.
Emerging Technologies
Learn moreEarly-stage evaluation of technologies where performance, cost, uncertainty, and sustainability outcomes need to be assessed together.