Anna Korre
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Anna Korre is Professor of Environmental Engineering and heads the Minerals Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group at Imperial College London. She is also Associate Provost (Sustainability) and has previously been a co-director of the Imperial's Energy Futures Lab. Korre is responsible for the development and embedding of Imperial’s Sustainability Strategy across the University's academic mission. As Professor of Environmental Engineering her work is focused on environmental risk, uncertainty assessment and the life cycle assessment of engineering systems.
Anna Korre grew up in Athens, Greece. Her father was a builder who had moved from Naxos island to Athens and her mother a housewife. She studied geology at the National University of Athens, followed by doctoral studies in environmental engineering at Imperial, investigating the effect of mining of lead, zinc and silver in antiquity and the early twentieth century around the Lavrio region, south of Athens. From 1993 until 1995 Korre had a Marie Curie fellowship in Imperial College London to continue her work on metal pollution in soils and related human heath risks. She then returned to Greece for a short time to work in a desk-based role. Korre soon felt the need to return to academia to work on reducing emissions from industrial operations and assessing the environmental impacts and risks to soils, surface waters, humans and ecosystems.[1]
