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Shoshanna Saxe, PhD, P.Eng. - 2019 OPEA Medal - Young Engineer
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Why aren’t more Torontonians cycling to work?
Transit construction can cause greenhouse gas emissions that take decades to offset, study says
Infrastructure’s impact: How public transit investments affect our environment
University of Toronto, March 2, 2017Online
Biography
Dr. Shoshanna Saxe is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics from McGill (2007), Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT (2009), PhD from the University of Cambridge in Engineering (2016) (Jesus College), and was a Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (2016). She primarily investigates the relationship between the infrastructure we build and the society we create, with a particular focus on environmental sustainability. Saxe maintains that our infrastructure systems are the skeletal structure of society; they drive how we live, work, consume, and travel. The need for quantitative understanding of the sustainable impact of infrastructure is pressing. Toronto alone will spend $40 billion in the next 10 years on infrastructure; globally $90 trillion will be spent within 15 years. Saxe is an alumna of Action Canada, a member of the Transportation Research Board’s standing committee on Transportation and Sustainability, and sits on Waterfront Toronto’s Capital Peer Review Panel.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Clean50 Emerging Leader 2019 | Professional
Canada’s Clean50 annually offers recognition to Canada’s leaders in sustainability for their contributions over the prior two years. https://clean50.com/shoshanna-saxe/?order_by=clean50