Sarah Marie Jordaan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology Life Cycle Assessment at the Department of Civil Engineering and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, McGill University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on combinations of life cycle assessment, techno economic analysis, and technology innovation to develop solutions for a more sustainable energy future. She has published 40 peer reviewed articles (including in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Science, Environmental Science & Technology), a book, and she has completed over 40 invited and 20+ conference presentations. She earned her doctorate in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary in 2010 and her Bachelor of Science (Physics) was completed at Memorial University in 2003. Prior to McGill, she held positions at Harvard University, the Electric Power Research Institute, the University of Calgary, UC San Diego, and the Johns Hopkins University. As an awardee of the 2022 Education Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) and active member of ACLCA since 2008, she has been publishing on LCA of energy technologies for over a decade and teaching the topic for over six years. She seeks to bridge disciplinary knowledge for students and prepare them to take on challenges in decision-making whether they pursue a career in academia, industry, the public sector or a non-profit organization.

Xiao is a postdoctoral scholar with ETAPA in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, working on incorporating life cycle and techno-economic analyses into integrate assessment models. Previously, he was a visiting doctoral student with ETAPA (Washington DC) from the department of Hydropower & Water resources in Wuhan University (2020-2023). His research interests include renewable energy system operations, energy economics and policy, energy-land-environment nexus, and techno-ecology synergy. In his PhD, he addressed the hydropower operations considering its techno-economic-ecology synergy. He has designed a whole model for long-term renewable investments, forward contract, boundary and self-scheduling in spot markets. He explores the deployment of renewables worldwide, to effectively limit GHG emissions, from a multi-disciplinary view. View his research gate here!

Mariam Hosni is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University. She is currently conducting a meta-analysis and systematic review for life cycle assessments of electricity generation in Canada. She is also performing a life cycle assessment on battery energy storage technologies utilization for grid applications. In addition, she is working on completing a life cycle assessment of electricity generation from wind turbines across Canada by utilizing an inventory she is compiling herself. Mariam is experienced in big data processing where she previously analyzed millions of observations for monthly household electricity consumption and daily waste generation per bin. In addition, she specializes in life cycle assessments of various environmental systems, such as sustainable water supply systems and waste management strategies. She has also completed an experimental analysis on enhancing methane production form anaerobic digesters by the addition of syngas.

Tongfei is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, supervised by Prof. Sarah Jordaan and co-supervised by Prof. Sylvain Coulombe. Before starting his Ph.D., he obtained his undergraduate and master's degrees from Sichuan University, China. Now, he is pursuing to achieve a net-zero future world with green hydrogen and ammonia and evaluating them by integrating life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis. Primarily, he focuses on emerging technologies with low technology readiness levels of hydrogen and ammonia production. He is also interested in identifying and addressing the barriers to scaling up and deploying emerging technologies.

Nicolas is currently in the first year of his PhD fast-track in Civil Engineering under the supervision of Professor Jordaan. He's obtained his bachelor's degree in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University in 2022. His current research interests revolve around life-cycle assessment (LCA), GHG emissions related to transportation, and the electrification of the vehicle fleet. He is working on LCA projects to evaluate fleet-level impacts of electrification scenarios and policies.

Yisen is a Master of Science student in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, where he also obtained his Bachelors of Engineering in Civil Engineering. Under Prof. Sarah Jordaan, he works on the life cycle and techno-economic assessment of electric vehicle batteries, investigating their potential for re-use in stationary grid storage systems. He is particularly interested in the economic and policy implications of adopting green technologies. In his free time, he likes to read novels and play the ukulele. Yisen is a Master of Science student in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, where he also obtained his Bachelors of Engineering in Civil Engineering. Under Prof. Sarah Jordaan, he works on the life cycle and techno-economic assessment of electric vehicle batteries, investigating their potential for re-use in stationary grid storage systems. He is particularly interested in the economic and policy implications of adopting green technologies. In his free time, he likes to read novels and play the ukulele.

Armita is a Master of Science student in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Her current research, supervised by Prof. Jordaan, focuses on the battery supply chain and recycling in Quebec. She is interested in examining the life cycle of batteries and evaluating their cost and environmental implications.

Maya Dwivedi-Leng is currently pursuing a Master of Science in the Department of Civil Engineering. She previously completed a Bachelor of Engineering at McGill University in the Department of Bioresource Engineering. Under the supervision of Professor Jordaan, Maya’s research focuses on cost-effective end-of-life management of wind farms in Canada, with particular emphasis on repowering wind farms in Ontario and managing the decommissioning of wind turbine blades. She is interested in pursuing a career in renewable energy investments.

Malik Cherrat is a final-year Bioresource Engineering student with a keen focus on Energy Systems, Industrial Ecology, and the Decarbonization of the Aviation Industry. Driven by a passion for addressing the urgent challenges of climate change and environmental sustainability, Malik is working on analyzing the land use impact of coal mining in Western United States through geospatial analyses. His work involves mapping and quantifying the magnitude of Land Use associated with coal mining and the extent of reclamation practices.

Anna is a 4th-year undergraduate student at McGill University pursuing a bachelor's in Civil Engineering. She is interested in energy sustainability and is currently doing research related to the feasibility of circular economies for Lithium-ion Batteries.

Vibhor is a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) student in Civil - Environmental Engineering at McGill University. He has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Chemical Engineering from SUNY University at Buffalo (2016 - 2020). He currently works under Prof. Sarah Jordaan and as part of the NIH funded GeoHealth Hub to examine the existing vehicle life-cycle assessment (LCA) databases and compare them to the vehicle fleet in Lima, Peru. Data gaps will be identified where there is no existing data for specific vehicle types, and a literature review will be conducted to fill the data gaps for those vehicles. He plans to use his knowledge and skills to pursue meaningful work in the transport or energy sector.

Alexandre is a Master of Science student in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University. Under the supervision of Prof. Jordaan, he is currently researching solutions to address data gaps in Life Cycle Inventories (LCIs) of electrical components, aiming to improve the reliability and scalability of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). He is also interested on how dynamic LCAs can capture temporal variations in the environmental impacts of products across the value chain.

Elsa Edwards is an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University. She was a Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) student under Dr. Sarah Jordaan and Dr. Xiao Li in 2024. Her techno-economic overview of hydrogen in Canada, focused primarily on its storage and production, earned her a SURE award in the category of Natural Resources, Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure. She currently works at ETAPA as a research assistant. She is particularly interested in transportation, whether it be energy alternatives to fossil fuels (such as hydrogen) or the optimization and blending of transit in urban spaces (trains, buses, cars, bicycles, etc.).

Rebecca Seefeld is a 3rd-year Physics and Computer Science undergraduate student at McGill University. She is interested in renewable energies and sustainable manufacturing.