In this seminar, Reinout Heijungs will give a talk about his "Lifetime award": what is it about?
Recently I received the "SETAC Europe Award for Lifetime Achievement in Life Cycle Assessment". This award is given every two years by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, a scientific community of around 10,000 members. In this seminar I will inform you how SETAC, life cycle assessment and myself have been living together in the past 35 years.
About the speaker
Reinout Heijungs is associate professor at the Department of Operations Analytics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
After his graduation in 1987 in theoretical physics from Groningen University, he went to Leiden University, first as an assistant professor in physiological physics at the Medical Faculty, and next to the Institute of Environmental Sciences, as a researcher and assistant professor in environmental science.
In 1997 he received his PhD (cum laude) for his thesis entitled Economic Drama and the Environmental Stage. After taking PhD, he spent a four-years research period at the Department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, but returned fully to Leiden University in 2002.
Since 2013, he is again with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as an associate professor in quantitative methods. A principle task is organizing and teaching classes in mathematics and statistics for several BSc programmes.
So far, he has successfully supervised 8 PhD students, and authored/co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles as well as 5 books. He is the recipient of SETAC Europe's biannual Lifetime Achievement in Life Cycle Assessment Award. He is or has been member of several editorial boards, review committees, organizing committees and PhD committees. He is Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, as well as member of the Beta Research School for Operations Management and Logistics.
He still has a small task at Leiden University, advising PhD students and others.