Personal Profile
Mary Ann Curran is an internationally recognized expert in Life Cycle Assessment. As an early leader in the field, she has developed an in-depth knowledge of LCA practice and created an extensive network of LCA researchers and practitioners worldwide. Until 2013, Mary Ann worked in the US EPA’s Office of Research Development as a Senior Research Chemical Engineer; her activities included the development of LCA methodology, promoting LCA within the agency in meeting its goals, review of life-cycle case studies, planning life-cycle workshops and conferences, and the development of life-cycle data and resources. Mary Ann has authored and co-authored numerous papers and book chapters addressing the LCA concept and its applications. Her recent projects include the LCA Handbook (2012) and the LCA Compendium book series (the first of ten volumes was published in 2014). Mary Ann has a PhD from Erasmus University in the Netherlands, a Masters from Lund University in Sweden, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in the US.
