Prof. Sarah Jordaan
Department of Civil Engineering and Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design
McGill University
Dr. Sarah Jordaan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology / Life Cycle Assessment at the Department of Civil Engineering and Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, McGill University.
Her publications develop solutions for a more sustainable energy future, appearing in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Environmental Science & Technology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. She leads the Energy Technology And Policy Assessment (ETAPA) group, where life cycle assessment, techno economic analysis, and technology innovation are developed as decision support tools.
She won the 2022 Educational Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, where she has been a member since 2008. Prior to McGill, she held positions at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, the Electric Power Research Institute, Shell, the University of Calgary, and the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the UC, San Diego. She holds a doctorate in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Computer Science from Memorial University.