Federico M. Butera
Politecnico di Milano
Federico M. Butera is Professor Emeritus at the Politecnico di Milano, where he taught Environmental Technical Physics, and holds an honorary PhD in Architecture. One of the pioneers of scientific environmentalism, he has been conducting research in the fields of energy and the environment since the 1970s. He has participated in the work of the International Energy Agency on research relating to energy efficiency at building and urban scales and has coordinated European projects on these same topics; he has collaborated with the UN agency UN-Habitat on issues concerning sustainable development at building and community levels in developing countries.
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Beyond the fossil era
John Harvey
University of California, Davis
John Harvey is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he chairs the Transportation Technology and Policy graduate group. He is also Director of the University of California Pavement Research Center (UCPRC), which conducts a wide range of pavement research for Caltrans through the Partnered Pavement Research Center program, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, Dynatest Consulting, CSIR (South Africa), and other institutions. Earlier, he was co-Principal Investigator and project manager of the Caltrans Accelerated Pavement Testing Program (1994–2000), where he led the development of mechanistic-empirical design methods and the expansion of concrete pavement testing. He pioneered research on construction productivity for long-life concrete and asphalt pavements, and its interaction with urban traffic. At UC Davis since 2002, he teaches pavement design, rehabilitation, and asphalt materials. He previously spent 13 years at UC Berkeley and four years as a consultant in Nigeria and Texas. He is a registered professional engineer in California.
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Almost 20 years of PavementLCA
Imad Al-Qadi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Imad L. Al-Qadi is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and founding Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation. Previously the Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor at Virginia Tech, he has led over 200 research projects, managed an additional 400 as ICT Director, authored over 1,000 publications, and advised over 100 PhD students and postdocs. His honors include the presidential NSF Young Investigator Award, ASCE James Laurie Prize, ARTBA Steinberg Award, and French Limoges Medal. He is an ASCE Distinguished Member, the inaugural APSE Distinguished Member, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering. He received the 2023 TRB Roy W. Crum Award, 2024 CUTC Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 UIUC Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award, and was named a 2024 U of I President’s Executive Leadership Program Fellow.
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Resilient and Sustainable Pavements for Safe Future Mobility
Marzia Traverso
RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Marzia Traverso (PHD) is a university professor and director of the Institute for Sustainability in Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. With around 20 years of experience, her expertise includes Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA). She previously worked at TU Berlin, BMW Group, and the European Commission. Since 2021, she has been founder and scientific advisor of Circular srl. She also serves as RWTH Aachen’s Rector’s Representative for Cooperation with Africa and has authored more than 130 scientific publications.
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The life cycle sustainability assessment applied to road: a multilayer approach
Stefano Magni
Università di Milano
Stefano Magni, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Ecology at the Department of Biosciences, University of Milan. His research activities focus on the monitoring and toxicity assessment of
(micro)plastics, water-soluble polymers, and tire particles in freshwater environments, using biomarkers and “omics” techniques. In 2017, he was a Visiting Researcher in Dr. François Gagné’s laboratory at Environment and Climate Change Canada (Montréal, Québec, Canada), supported by the Brusarosco Award from the Italian Society of Ecology, where he investigated the neurotoxicity of (micro)plastics using freshwater model organisms. He is author/co-author of more than 60 publications in international scientific journals and books.
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