Arpad Horvath
Dr. Arpad Horvath is an Associate Professor in the Engineering and Project Management Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He is also Director of UC Berkeley’s Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing, and Director of UC Berkeley’s Engineering and Business for Sustainability certificate program. Dr. Horvath holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest (Hungary), and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly of civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. He recently served on a National Research Council committee studying the environmental impacts of wind energy projects. Dr. Horvath is currently doing research with five Ph.D. students and three postdoctoral researchers. He is Associate Editor of the J. of Infrastructure Systems of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and on the Editorial Board of the J. of Industrial Ecology of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. Dr. Horvath was Conference Co-chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment in 2000, 2001 and 2007, and Program Co-chair in 1999, 2006, 2008, and 2009. He will be Conference Chair of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology in 2011. Dr. Horvath is a recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the Laudise Prize “for outstanding achievements in industrial ecology by a young scientist or engineer” by the International Society for Industrial Ecology, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, four-time recipient of the AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship, and co-recipient of the NSF-Lucent Technologies Industrial Ecology Fellowship.