Adisa Azapagic

Azapagic was born in 1961 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[1] She attended the University of Tuzla, and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.^[5] She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Surrey, and earned her PhD on Environmental System Analysis using Life-cycle assessment in 1996. ^[6]

Azapagic remained at the University of Surrey for thirteen years before moving to the University of Manchester.^[7] She leads the Sustainable Industrial Systems research group at the University of Manchester.^[8] She runs several industry collaborations, including projects with Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods, Whirlpool Corporation.^[5] In 2015 she won the University of Manchester award for Outstanding Benefit to Society.^[9] Azapagic developed software to calculate carbon footprint at the University of Manchester (CCaLC).^[10]

Her research interests lie in engineering for sustainable development, which includes sustainable technology, life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting.^[4][11] In 2018 she demonstrated that the UK's chocolate industry generates the same amount of greenhouse gases as Malta.^[12]

Azapagic is the founding editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Sustainable Production and Consumption.^[13] She has written three books,^[3] looking at sustainable development and polymers.^[14]

Azapagic was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2013.^[15] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to sustainability and carbon footprinting.^[16][17] She was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași.^[5] She is part of the all-party manufacturing group.^[18] She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.^[19] In 2010 she was awarded the Institution of Chemical Engineers prize for Outstanding Achievements in Chemical and Process Engineering. She won the GlaxoSmithKline Innovation prize in 2011.^[20]