| Academic degree: | Dr. |  | | Last name: | Rosenbaum | | First name: | Ralph K. | | Responsible for: | LCIA of impacts on human health and ecosystems (Associated to Michael Hauschild) | | Organization/Institute: | Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal | | Department: | CIRAIG – Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services | | Position: | Research Officer | | Street, Number, POB: | 2900 Édouard-Montpetit, P.O. Box 6079, Stn. Centre-ville | | Postal code, City: | Montreal, H3C 3A7 | | State: | Québec | | Country: | Canada | | Phone: | +1 (514) 340 4711 #3368 | | Fax: | +1 (514) 340 5913 | | E-mail address: | ralph.rosenbaum@polymtl.ca | | Url: | http://www.ciraig.org | | Curriculum vitae: | Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Research Officer/Agent de Recherche
CIRAIG - Interuniversity Research Centre
for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services
École Polytechnique de Montréal
2900 Édouard-Montpetit
P.O. Box 6079, Stn. Centre-ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3A7
Canada
Tel.: +1 514-340-4711 ext.: 3368
Fax: +1 514-340-5913
www.ciraig.org
In 2003 Ralph K. Rosenbaum finished his Diploma degree (Diplomingenieur) in Environmental Engineering at the Technical University Berlin, Germany. From 2003 to 2006 he pursued his Ph.D. thesis (“Multimedia and Food Chain Modelling of Toxics for Comparative Risk and Life Cycle Impact Assessment”) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland under the supervision of Olivier Jolliet in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California Berkeley. During this time his research focused on biotransfer modelling for meat and milk, structuring, comparing and evaluating environmental multimedia models, and the development of uncertainty estimation methods for such models, all in the context of comparative risk and life cycle impact assessment. He was also the EPFL project leader for the EU projects OMNIITOX and NEEDS. After finishing his thesis he worked several months on a freelance basis mainly for UNEP before he joined the CIRAIG (Interuniversity Research Centre
for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services) as research officer in April 2007.
At CIRAIG, his research in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) focuses on uncertainty management in LCA, development of impact characterisation methods related mainly to toxic impacts on human population and ecosystems, water use, acidification, and land use, as well as LCA of bioproducts.
His current main activities are:
• Development of the USEtox (UNEP/SETAC toxicity) model and definition of recommended practice in life cycle toxicity characterisation within the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative.
• Further development of the Canadian LCIA method LUCAS.
• Further development of the IMPACT 2002 multimedia fate and exposure model with a focus on uncertainty assessment and food chain modelling.
• Teaching LCIA courses for undergraduate and graduate students.
• Supervision of Ph.D. and Master students. | | Areas of interest: | | LCIA | | water use | | land-use, LCIA | | biobased industrial products through LCA | | UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative | | uncertainty | | uncertainty modelling in LCA | | LCA in environmental evaluation | | LCIA, emission, fate and exposure modelling | | LCA and other environmental management systems | | |
| | Articles: | 11 LCA (3) 209-212 (2006), Establishing a Framework for Life Cycle Toxicity Assessment. Findings of the Lausanne Review Workshop (4 pp)
9 LCA (5) 295-306 (2004), Comparison between Three Different LCIA Methods for Aquatic Ecotoxicity and a Product Environmental Risk Assessment - Insights from a Detergent Case Study within OMNIITOX (12 pp)
9 LCA (5) 320-326 (2004), Bringing Science and Pragmatism together - A Tiered Approach for Modelling Toxicological Impacts in LCA (7 pp)
8 LCA (6) 324-330 (2003), IMPACT 2002+: A New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methodology
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