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Editors and Contributors xv
Stig Irving Olsen is Associate Professor at the division for
Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at DTU Management
Engineering at Technical University of Denmark. He graduated
as environmental biologist from University of Copenhagen with
a postgraduate education in Toxicology from the same univer-
sity. He has a total of 9 years experience as a consultant in the
field of toxicology and ecotoxicology. After some years as a
consultant, he did an industrial Ph.D. working on “Life Cycle
Assessment of basic chemicals” from Technical University of
Denmark with five industrial partners, the main one being Novo
Nordisk. He combined his knowledge and entered into methods
development for life cycle impact assessment of toxic impacts,
an area in which he was chairman for SETAC working groups
during 1999–2001 and later member of an ensuing WG. He
found interest in nanotechnology with the increasing societal
focus, the potential environmental benefits, and the potential
risks of nanoparticles and he became a member of a working
group at the Danish board of technology and was invited to a
number of governmental workshops in the USA and EU. He has
also studied other emerging technologies such as
third-generation biofuels. He has served as a reviewer of
research proposals for EU, Sweden, Germany, Portugal and
Switzerland. He is senior editor and member of founding board
for the journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and
Management and submission editor for The International Journal
of Life Cycle Assessment. He has been teaching LCA and par-
ticularly application of simple LCA for 15 years in four different
courses and has supervised numerous bachelors, masters, and
Ph.D. students in the field of LCA.

Contributors
Naeem Adibi PLATEFORME [avniR]-cd2e, Loos-en-Gohelle, France;
WELOOP, Lens, France
Karen Allacker Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU
Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Per Dannemand Andersen Division for Technology and Innovation
Management, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of
Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Assumpció Antón IRTA, Food and Agricultural Research Institute, Centre de
Cabrils, Barcelona, Spain

Ioannis Bakas Division for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department
of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby,
Denmark
Claudine Basset-Mens CIRAD, UPR Hortsys, ELSA—Research Group,
Montpellier Cedex 5, France