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industry and administration during his whole career; at the
Technical University of Denmark close to 1000 master of engi-
neering students since the late 1990s have graduated from the LCA
course that he has been active in developing, renewing and running
through around 20 years.

Ralph K. Rosenbaum is Head of the Industrial Chair for
Environmental and Social Sustainability Assessment
“ELSA-PACT” at the French National Research Institute of
Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture
(Irstea) in Montpellier. Originally from Germany, he received his
Environmental Engineering degree (Diplomingenieur) from the
Technical University Berlin in 2003. He then pursued his Ph.D.
thesis entitled “Multimedia and Food Chain Modelling of Toxics
for Comparative Risk and Life Cycle Impact Assessment” at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) until
2006. In early 2007 he joined the team of CIRAIG at the École
Polytechnique Montreal, Canada as researcher and lecturer.
Before becoming affiliated with Irstea in 2014, he was appointed
Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark
(DTU) in Copenhagen in 2010. In 2015 he defended his
Habilitation (“Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”—HDR),
entitled: “Increasing precision and applicability of life cycle
impact assessment in the context of comparative environmental
sustainability studies” at the University of Montpellier, France.
Passionate about quantitative environmental sustainability
assessment including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) since 1997,
Ralph Rosenbaum is an expert in environmental modelling, as
well as application and development of LCA methodology and
teaching related to sustainability and environmental assessment.
He is co-author of the UNEP-SETAC consensus model for the
evaluation of comparative toxicity USEtox and the LCIA
methods IMPACT 2002+, Impact World+ and LC-Impact. Since
2007 he has been a subject editor of The International Journal of
Life Cycle Assessment for impacts of chemicals on human
health. He has been active in several international expert work-
ing groups of the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative since its
launch in 2002. He was member of the SETAC North
America LCA Steering Committee from 2008 to 2010 and the
SETAC Europe LCA Steering Committee from 2012 to 2018
and appointed to the LCIA Method Developers Advisory Group
of the European LCA Platform project (ILCD) of the EU
Commission in 2007. Since 2007 he has been developing and
running courses on sustainability, LCA and related concepts and
methods, teaching hundreds of professionals from industry,
academia and government, as well as more than 600 students
from Bachelor to Ph.D. level on three continents, and super-
vising numerous masters, Ph.D. and postdoc projects.