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Professor Heather MacLean is a leading academic at the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering within the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto. She also holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Systems and Technology Assessment and serves as Vice Dean Strategy for the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering.
- Current roles: Professor, Vice Dean, Canada Research Chair
- Key research areas: Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure
Her research focuses on sustainable engineering systems, particularly through life cycle assessment and techno-economic methods to evaluate energy and transportation systems. She explores technical and externality impacts of conventional and alternative technologies, with interdisciplinary connections to civil, environmental, chemical, and mechanical engineering, as well as economics and public policy.
The themes of her recent publications (2008–2017) center on life cycle emissions of vehicles, biofuels, urban resilience, and carbon sequestration. These works span energy resource flows in cities, intermodal transport modeling, and emissions validation through microsimulation.
She actively collaborates with public and private sectors on sustainability projects, though specific student names and lab details are not listed in the provided text. The Canada Research Chair underscores her national leadership in sustainable systems analysis.
