Julie B. Zimmerman
Assistant Professor
Yale University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Environmental Engineering Program

 

Dr. Julie Beth Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering Program and the School of Forestry and Environment.  She is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia.  Her research interests include green engineering, environmentally benign design and manufacturing, and the fate and impacts of anthropogenic compounds in the environment as well as appropriate water treatment technologies for the developing world.  Dr. Zimmerman previously served as an Engineer and Program Coordinator in the Office of Research and Development at the United States Environmental Protection Agency where she managed grants to academia and small businesses in the areas of pollution prevention and sustainability. She received a joint PhD from the University of Michigan in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resource Policy. Her thesis work focused on designing environmentally preferable machining fluids using renewable resources and evaluating their machining, environmental, and economic performance.  Her policy research focused on exploring the government's role in enhancing industry's efforts to advance sustainability through the implementation of science and technology.

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Research Interests
  • Environmentally-Benign Chemicals and Materials 
    The quest for safer substitutes and alternatives to our current chemicals can only be advanced if those
    substitutes are designed and brought into existence by scientists and engineers.     (more)

  • Policy Design in Advancing Sustainability 
    Policy at the regional, national, and global scale impacts the generation and dissemination of innovative technologies to advance sustainability.  Policies that drive sustainability through leap-frog technologies in an industrially globalized world will be imperative to address the current environmental, economic and social contrasts between the developed and developing world. (more)

  • Corporate Environmental Behavior
    There are a number of motivators of corporate environmental behavior, including costs, customer demand, profitability, corporate or industry culture, geography, competitive environment, technological capability, and government interventions. However, motivations are not the same for all companies and facilities in regard to their environmentally- or socially-responsible behavior. (more)

  • Water Treatment Technologies for Developing Communities
    The World Health Organization, in its Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report, estimates that 1.1 billion people do not have access to an improved water supply.  The quality of drinking water and sanitation services is directly linked to human health.     (more)
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