Dr. Sangwon Suh
Dr. Sangwon Suh obtained his PhD (cum laude) for his dissertation, "Materials and Energy Flows in Industry and Ecosystem Networks" at Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2004. He taught "Advanced Life Cycle Assessment" at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Carnegie Mellon University from 2004 to 2005. He joined the faculty of College of Natural Resources of the University of Minnesota in 2005. Dr. Suh took his current position at Bren School in 2010.
Dr. Suh was appointed as one of the 28 members of the International Resources Panel of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) since 2009. He is one of the few members of both working groups by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the World Resources Institute (WRI)/World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in their efforts of carbon footprint standardization (ISO 14064 and GHG protocol). Dr. Suh also served the council of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) from 2007 to 2010. He is holding Associate Editor posts of Journal of Industrial Ecology and International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. He is elected as the chair of the 2012 Gorden Research Conference on Industrial Ecology. He serves merit review committees of the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Schweischerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation). Dr. Suh regularly provides consultations to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Commerce and UNEP.
Dr. Suh was awarded the McKnight Land-Grand Professorship in 2009 and 2010 by the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Suh received the the Robert A. Laudise Prize by the International Society for Industrial Ecology in 2009. He was the AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow in 2003 and 2004.
Dr. Suh gave invited lectures and seminars to, among others, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), British Royal Academy of Engineering, Yale University, University of Tokyo, City University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Seoul National University.
Dr. Suh authored, co-authored or edited 3 books and about 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, and his publications include some of the most widely cited ones in the field.
