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Editors and Contributors

About the Editors

Michael Z. Hauschild is Professor in Life Cycle Assessment
and Head of the division for Quantitative Sustainability
Assessment at the Department of Management Engineering,
Technical University of Denmark. He has been overall respon-
sible for the department’s life cycle engineering research activi-
ties, teaching and professional training for more than a decade.
A chemical engineer and ecotoxicologist of training, he entered
the field of life cycle assessment method development and
application with the EDIP project (Environmental Design of
Industrial Products) 1992–1997. Together with colleagues he
developed and documented one of the first full life cycle assess-
ment methods and received the Great Environmental Prize of the
Nordic Council of Ministers 1997 for this work. He has worked
internationally in various scientific working groups and held the
chair of the SETAC-Europe task force on ecotoxicity assessment
in LCIA 1998–2002. 2002–2006 he chaired the UNEP/SETAC
Life Cycle Initiative task force on Assessment of Toxic Impacts
in LCIA facilitating the development of the UNEP/SETAC
consensus model USEtox for evaluation of human and ecotoxi-
city in LCA, and since 2017 he has chaired the task force on
ecotoxic impacts. He has been a member of the editorial board of
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment since 1998,
subject editor for LCIA of human and ecotoxic impacts since
2008, and he has been subject editor on LCA for the Journal of
Industrial Ecology since 2010. As a consultant he has assisted in
the development of the European Comission’s International Life
Cycle Data System (ILCD) guideline for LCA and the develop-
ment of recommendations for life cycle impact assessment under
the ILCD system. Furthermore, he is the founding Chair of the
Nordic Life Cycle Association, NorLCA, aimed at broad dis-
semination of life cycle thinking in the Nordic countries and has
been active in the International Academy for Production
Engineering (CIRP) in agenda setting and support of life cycle
engineering activities. He has been teaching LCA methodology
and application to university students and professionals in

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