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Adam P. Eisele
Adam P. Eisele is an American air quality engineer who measured VOC emissions from oil and gas well pads and received a 2011 PECASE award at the EPA.
Andrea Clements
Andrea Clements is a physical scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who researches low-cost air sensor data quality and won a 2025 PECASE award.
Bernd Nowack
Bernd Nowack is an environmental scientist who leads the Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Group at Empa in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and models engineered nanomaterials in the environment.
Chris G. Whipple
Chris G. Whipple is an American engineer and risk analyst specializing in radioactive waste, hazardous air pollutants, and mercury, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
David Thomas Allen
David Thomas Allen is an American chemical and environmental engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Edgar G. Hertwich
Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.
Emily A. Grubert
Emily A. Grubert is an American civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies justice-centered decarbonization of the US energy system, known for her 2020 Science paper on fossil plant retirements.
Emma Nehrenheim
Emma Nehrenheim is an environmental engineer who led battery recycling at Northvolt and, since May 2025, has been managing director of the European Battery Alliance (EBA250).
Gayle S.W. Hagler
Gayle S.W. Hagler is a research environmental engineer at the U.S. EPA who measures air pollution near roads and evaluates low-cost air sensors, receiving a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.
Jiming Hao (郝吉明)
Jiming Hao (郝吉明), born 1946, is a Chinese environmental engineer at Tsinghua University whose work shaped China's air pollution control strategy and technology; he joined the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Julie B. Zimmerman
Julie B. Zimmerman, also known as Julie Beth Zimmerman, is an American environmental engineer at Yale known for the Twelve Principles of Green Engineering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Konrad Hungerbühler
Konrad Hungerbühler, born 1952 in Zürich, is a Swiss chemical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus who held the chair of safety and environmental technology from 1994 to 2018.
M. Granger Morgan
M. Granger Morgan, also known as Millett Granger Morgan, is an American engineer and risk analyst at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.
Margrit von Braun
Margrit von Braun is an American environmental engineer who spent three decades on the University of Idaho faculty and co-founded TerraGraphics, a hazardous waste remediation firm, in 1984.
Paloma Beamer
Paloma Beamer is an exposure scientist and environmental engineer at the University of Arizona, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Povl Ole Fanger
Povl Ole Fanger (1934–2006) was a Danish scientist at the Technical University of Denmark known for the PMV thermal comfort model and the olf and decipol units.
Sheldon K. Friedlander
Sheldon K. Friedlander (1927–2007) was an American chemical engineer at UCLA, a father of aerosol science, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Shelie A. Miller
Shelie A. Miller is an environmental engineer and professor at the University of Michigan who uses life cycle assessment to identify unintended environmental consequences of emerging technologies.
Stefanie Hellweg
Stefanie Hellweg is a Swiss environmental engineer and full professor at ETH Zurich, holding the Chair of Ecological Systems Design since 2006 and specializing in life cycle assessment.
Thomas E. Graedel
Thomas E. Graedel is an American industrial ecologist at Yale University who co-wrote the field's first textbook and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
William Firth Wells
William Firth Wells (1887–1963) was an American sanitary engineer who founded the quantitative study of airborne infection, proposing that suspended droplet nuclei carry disease and demonstrating ultraviolet light kills airborne pathogens.