Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• since 2020  Professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
• 2013-2019  Associate Professor of sustainability research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia
• 2006-2017  Director of the Centre for Sustainability Accounting, York, UK
• 2011-2012  Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australia
• 2002-2010  Senior Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, UK
• 1999-2002  Researcher /consultant at the VDI Technology Centre, Future Technologies Division, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1996-1999  Research Associate and Principal Investigator at the Centre of Technology Assessment, Stuttgart, Germany

Professional Affiliations and Appointments

• Adjunct Science Leader at CSIRO since 2021
• Lead Author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC (2019-2021) and Contributing Author on the Fifth Assessment ReportScientific Program Chair of the 27th International Input-Output Association Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, 1-5 July 2019
• Member of the Australian Department of the Environment Expert Committee on carbon neutral precincts, 2016-17
• Technical Advisor to GHG Protocol for Cities scope 3 accounting development under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol (World Resources Institute (WRI) and World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD)) (2016-17)
• Council member of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) since 2016
• Co-Chair of the EEIO Section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology since 2016
• Scientific Program Committee Chair of the 2nd National IELab Conference 2017, 26-28 November 2017, Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia
• Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the 24th, 25th and 26th International Input-Output Conferences in Seoul (Korea, 2016), Atlantic City (USA, 2017) and Juiz de Fora (Brazil, 2018)
• Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the International Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, 25-29 June 17, Chicago, USA
• Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the International High-Performance Built Environment Conference (iHBE 2016) – A Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2016 Series (SBE16), 17-18 November 2016, UNSW Sydney, Australia
• Scientific Program Committee Chair and organiser of the 1st National IELab Conference 2015, 11-12 June 2015, Freshwater, Sydney, Australia
• Member of Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Input-Output User Group since 2012
• Series editor of Springer book on 'Developments in Input-Output Analysis' since 2015
• Editor of book 'Sustainability Practitioner's Guide to Social Analysis and Assessment', 2015
• Editor of the Journal of Economic Structures since 2016
• Adjunct/Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, 2011-2020
• Editorial board member of the journal Economic Systems Research (ESR) since 2010
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue 2009 of Economic Systems Research on 'Carbon Footprint and Input-Output Analysis'
• Member of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) since 2007
• Member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) since 2005
• Member of the Sustainable Engineering Society of Engineers Australia since 2013
• Previous affiliations with CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra and the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, UK.