CANCELED: Ezra's Round Table / Systems Seminar: Tareq Al-Ansari (HBKU)

Description

Tareq Al-Ansari is a Qatari national born and raised in Qatar. He acquired a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University College of London and a Master's in philosophy in engineering for sustainable development from the University of Cambridge. He completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London. His previous industry experience involves working as a mechanical and piping engineer for Qatar Petroleum on both the Common Cooling Water Project and the Barzan gas project. Dr. Tareq also served as a technical advisor at the Qatar National Food Security Program. Dr. Tareq’s research focus thus far has been to develop an integrated assessment tool that considers the EWF Nexus in the analysis of product systems and in the context of the natural environment. The EWF Nexus tool compiles product system inputs and outputs, and tracks material flow within it enabling the; (1) identification of the inter-linkages between EWF resource sectors represented by sub-systems, the evaluation of potential trade-offs and synergies, and (2) the computation of environmental degradation. Guided by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, the tool integrates EWF resources into one robust model and translates the outputs of the product system into environmental scores representing the impact on terrestrial, atmospheric and marine eco-systems.