Horvath

Arpad Horvath is the L. E. Peirano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees in civil engineering at Technical University of Budapest (Hungary) and a master’s and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Arpad is head of the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Graduate Program, director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center and the Engineering and Business for Sustainability Certificate Program at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services. He has conducted studies on transportation systems, water and wastewater systems, buildings, concrete and other construction materials, pavements, and biofuels.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. He received the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE (2008) and the Chancellor’s Sustainability Award from UC Berkeley (2013). Arpad was a member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board (2010-2015) and a member of its Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee (2011-2016).