Julie Zimmerman

Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of the Environment; Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Environment and Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences); Deputy Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
Julie Zimmerman is an internationally recognized engineer whose work is focused on advancing innovations in sustainable technologies. She holds joint appointments as a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.  She also serves at the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Environment School.  In February 2020, Zimmerman was appointed the Editor in Chief of Environmental Science & Technology, the most highly cited journal in the fields in Environmental Sciences and Engineering.  
Her pioneering work established the fundamental framework for her field with her seminal publications on the “Twelve Principles of Green Engineering” in 2003.  She demonstrates this framework in her research including breakthroughs on the integrated biorefinery, designing safer chemicals and materials, creating novel materials for water purification, and analyzing the water-energy nexus.  Prior to joining Yale, Zimmerman was an Engineer and program manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency leading the national sustainable design competition, P3 (People, Prosperity, and Planet) Award, which has engaged design teams from hundreds of universities across the U.S. She is the co-author of the textbook, Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sustainability, Design that is used in the engineering programs at leading universities and is a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences.  
Zimmerman earned her B.S. from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan jointly from the School of Engineering and the School of Environment and Sustainability.