Aline Banboukian
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Life Cycle Assessment Research
Contact
banboukiana@ornl.govBio
Dr. Aline Banboukian is a postdoctoral research associate in the Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Research & Analysis (MEERA) group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Her focus is on energy, life cycle assessment (LCA), and technoeconomic analyses (TEA) of various technology applications. Her current work is primarily centered on the food and beverage manufacturing industry and integrated biorefinery technologies for paper and pulp industries.
Aline received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in environmental and energy policy. She obtained her B.E. in industrial engineering from the Lebanese American University and M.S. in public policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include the co-management of global environmental challenges, technoeconomic and life cycle assessment, sustainability, industrial ecology, circular economy, and policy adoption. The past 5 years, her research has focused on the LCA and policy adoption of agricultural technologies, wastewater treatment systems, and water reuse policies.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology | PhD in Public Policy - Energy and Environment - 2023
Georgia Institute of Technology | Master of Sciences in Public Policy - 2018
Lebanese American University | Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering - 2015
Certificates
CIRTL Associate Level | Georgia Institute of Technology - 2023
Tech to Teaching (T2T) Certificate | Georgia Institute of Technology - 2023
C3E Leadership Workshop Certificate | Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) - 2019
Empower a Billion Lives Contribution Certificate | IEEE Power Electronics Society - 2019
Science Technology and Society (STS) Certificate | Georgia Institute of Technology - 2018
Other Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
- Liu, Y., Francis, A., Hollauer, C., Lawson, M.C., Shaikh, O., Cotsman, A., Bhardwaj, K., Banboukian, A., Li, M., Webb, A. and Asensio, O.I., 2023. Reliability of electric vehicle charging infrastructure: A cross-lingual deep learning approach. Communications in Transportation Research, 3, p.100095.
- Banboukian A., Thomas V. M. 2022. Conventional Agriculture, Greenhouse, and Hydroponics: An LCA of Lettuce, in Vázquez -Rowe, I., Kahhat, R., Muñoz-Sovero, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food (LCA Foods 2022), 12-14 October 2022, Lima, Peru, p. 240-246
- Brown, M. A., Favero A., Thomas V. M., Banboukian A. The Economic and Environmental Performance of Biomass as an Intermediate Resource for Power Production. Utilities Policy 58: 52-62, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2019.04.002
Conference Talks
- International Industrial Ecology Day 2022 “Wastewater Reuse for Urban Agriculture”
- LCA Foods 2022 “Conventional Agriculture, Greenhouse, and Hydroponics: An LCA of Lettuce”
- GRS Industrial Ecology 2022 “Conventional Agriculture, Greenhouse, and Hydroponics: An LCA of US Lettuce
Poster Presentations
- APPAM 2022 “Life Cycle Assessment and US Environmental Policy: A Systematic Review”
- ERSS 2022 “The Environmental Impacts of Coal Plant Retirements: A case study of the State of GA, USA”
- GRC Industrial Ecology 2022 “Conventional Agriculture, Greenhouse, and Hydroponics: An LCA of US Lettuce”
- GT CRIDC 2022 “Conventional Agriculture Greenhouse, and Hydroponics: An LCA of US Vegetables”
- ISSST 2021 “Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional Agriculture: Case Study of Lettuce Grown in the US”
- GT CRIDC 2021 “Life Cycle Assessment of Coal Power Plants in GA USA”
- C3E Women in Clean Energy 2019 “Life Cycle Assessment of Coal Power Plants in GA USA”
- GT CRIDC 2018 “Non-Optimal Effects of Financing Mechanisms on Electricity Development”
- C3E Women in Clean Energy 2017 “Effects of Financing Mechanisms on Electricity Development: Rwanda”