Dr. Marianne Hatzopoulou presents 'Beyond GHG: The challenge of achieving fair, healthy, and community-centered transport decarbonization'
November 25, 2022 . 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST
About the speaker
Marianne Hatzopoulou is a professor in the department of civil and mineral engineering at the University of Toronto and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transport Decarbonization and Air Quality.
She leads the Transportation and Air Quality (TRAQ) research group studying the interactions between transportation, air quality, climate change, and public health; she published over 145 publications on these topics.
Professor Hatzopoulou is also the director of Positive Zero Transport Futures, a living lab ecosystem for testing transport decarbonization innovations with positive societal outcomes.
Hatzopoulou held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Transportation and Air Quality and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Accelerator Supplement, an award recognizing research programs that are highly rated for originality and innovation. She is on the Canadian team of researchers who were the 2021 recipients of the NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering. In 2022, she received the University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Network 2T5 Mid-Career Achievement Award. She is an associate editor of the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. She supported municipal governments and community groups in the appraisal of transportation policies in terms of climate and air quality impacts and served on national and international expert panels, providing advice on the development of strategies to reduce transportation-related emissions.
Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE.
Free. All are welcome
If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact ite@studentorg.utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.