Adisa Azapagić (born 10 April 1961) is a

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and academic. She has served as Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at the

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since 2006.

Early life and education

Azapagic was born in 1961 in

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. She attended the University of Tuzla, and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. She completed her doctoral studies at the

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, and earned her

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on Environmental System Analysis using

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in 1996.

Research and career

Azapagic remained at the

for thirteen years before moving to the

. She leads the Sustainable Industrial Systems research group at the

. She runs several industry collaborations, including projects with

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, Kraft Foods,

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. In 2015 she won the

award for Outstanding Benefit to Society. Azapagic developed software to calculate

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at the

(CCaLC). Her research interests lie in engineering for sustainable development, which includes sustainable technology, life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting. In 2018 she demonstrated that the UK's chocolate industry generates the same amount of

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es as

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. Azapagic is the founding

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's ''Sustainable Production and Consumption''. She has written three books, looking at sustainable development and polymers.

Awards and honours

Azapagic was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2013. She was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to sustainability and carbon footprinting. She was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from

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. She is part of the all-party manufacturing group. She is a member of the

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. In 2010 she was awarded the

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prize for ''Outstanding Achievements in Chemical and Process Engineering''. She won the

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Innovation prize in 2011.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Azapagic, Adisa British chemical engineers Women chemical engineers Fellows of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Alumni of the University of Surrey 1961 births Living people Members of the Order of the British Empire Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom People from Tuzla