Biography

Professor Nick Voulvoulis is a Professor of Environmental Technology, and deputy Head of Department, at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London.
He is an international expert in environmental management, especially where science and engineering interface with public policy. His research targets the interactions and interdependencies between human and natural systems, and focuses on processes and practices across many areas and diverse sectors that aim to decouple economic growth from natural resources.
As an environmental scientist, he is committed to helping the industrial transition to a low carbon future, supporting government policy development, and empowering people through his research to engage in the transformational shift required for our society to reach sustainability.
Current research activities are exploring the role the manufacturing of antibiotics in the proliferation of antibiotic resistance (NERC), the potential of systems thinking in water policy (GLOBAQUA), the management of emerging contaminants (NERC), the fate of nanomaterials in wastewater (NERC), developing tools to address the conflicting demands of the water-energy-food nexus (AW programme), and delivering options for “closing the loop” in resources management (Veolia programme), to enable transition to a safer, circular and sustainable future. Impacts to society, community participation in science and links between knowledge management and environmental behaviour are also important parts of current work (for example as Director of the OPAL Soil Centre).
He is the Associate Editor of Environmental Management, an international peer reviewed journal published by Springer.