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Professor Jolliet's research and teaching programs aim to assess environmental risks and impacts of chemicals and of innovative technologies. He co-initiated the UNEP (United Nations Environment Program)/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative and is the scientific manager of its Life Cycle Impact Assessment program. He is editor and reviewer for several scientific journals.

Olivier Jolliet obtained a Ph.D. in building physics in 1988 at the EPFL. He worked as a postdoc at the Silsoe Research Institute (GB) and as a visiting scholar at MIT (USA) and Berkeley. Between 1998 and 2005, he was assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), heading the Industrial Ecology & Life Cycle Systems Group. In 2005, Olivier Jolliet was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and is one of the founding members of the Risk Science Center.

Dr. Huang's research interests include exposure modeling, human exposure and health risk assessment, life cycle assessment and environmental monitoring. Her current research addresses a range of topics related to the emissions and impacts of chemicals in the near-field environment that include: (1) development of mathematical models to assess the chemical emissions from the use of consumer products and the resulting human exposures; (2) high-throughput screening of exposure potentials of chemicals in consumer products and development of databases; and (3) development of characterization factors for chemicals in near-field environment to be used in life cycle assessments. Her other research experience and interests include multimedia modeling of chemical transport and fate, source apportionment, environmental monitoring and human risk assessments.

Dr. Stylianou's research interests include healthy and sustainable foods systems, lifestyle and environmental exposure and risk modeling, integrated health risk assessment, and life cycle assessment. Her current research addresses a range of topics related to lifestyle health risks such as diet and physical activity as well as strategies to influence behavior change that include: (1) development of the Health Nutritional Index (HENI) and characterization of health burden associated with individual foods and dietary patterns; (2) development of spatially-explicit and sector-specific U.S. characterization factors for primary and secondary PM_2.5; (3) evaluation of life cycle environmental impacts associated with individual foods and dietary patterns; (4) development of characterization factors for physical activity to be used in life cycle assessment; and (5) investigation of effective communication methods to influence dietary shifts. Her other research experience and interests occupational noise burden characterization, environmentally extended input-output analysis, product life cycle assessment, and human health risk modeling.

Vy is a PhD candidate pursuing a degree in Bioinformatics from the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. She is co-mentored by Dr. Olivier Jolliet, Dr. Justin Colacino, and Dr. Chirag Patel to conduct research at the interface of bioinformatics, epidemiology, and environmental health. Vy’s research interests include identifying chemical exposure patterns in the US population and understanding how such patterns are influencing human health. Outside of the laboratory, Vy enjoys antiquing, shopping, Final Fantasy video-gaming, painting, knitting, and exploring nature.

Yilong is a PhD student in Peking University, he is interested in environmental fate of various environmental contaminants and their exposure and risk to human and ecosystems. He is currently working on a project to evaluate the multimedia residues and overall impacts of pesticide applications in Chinese paddy fields. His previously work mainly related to the binding effects of natural organic matters on organic contaminants and how this would impact on the ecological risks of those pollutants.