Meike Sauerwein

Meike holds an appointment as a lecturer in the Division of Environment and Sustainability and is the Academic Lead of the HKUST Life Cycle Lab. Her research and teaching focuses on the holistic assessments of the environmental impacts through life cycle assessment (LCA) and how such knowledge can be utilized for sustainable product and circular system design, product labelling, behavioural research and consumer education as well as policy making.

Academic Lead, Life Cycle Lab, HKUST. 

Lecturer, Division of Environment and Sustainability 

(meike@ust.hk)

Teri Tan

Teri Tan has more than 15 years building consultancy experience locally and overseas. Most recently, Teri was sustainability team leader at Ove Arup, where she has utilised life cycle assessment, embodied carbon calculations and life cycle costing in developing sustainable design and engineering on major projects in Hong Kong. 

Program Manager, Life Cycle Lab, HKUST 

Net-Zero Manager, Sustainability / Net-Zero Office 

(teritan@ust.hk)

Evelyn Pang 

Evelyn has strong interests in Sustainable Development, Geography and Education.  She believes that everyone can do their part to contribute to a better Earth and advocates for continuous learning and application of sustainability principles in one's day-to-day life.

Sustainability Research, Life Cycle Lab, HKUST

Teaching Associate, Division of Environment and Sustainability

(evepys@ust.hk)

Donggyu Kim

I first discovered the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool while working with Dr. Meike on a project about second-hand clothing in Hong Kong. Intrigued by it, I enrolled in an ENVR course to learn more about conducting LCA studies. As I delved deeper, I realized how LCA can help us understand the environmental impacts of a product throughout its lifecycle. One of the course assignments was to conduct an LCA on Hong Kong Jockey Club's lunchbox lending program. After the course concluded, I helped with extended research on the lunchbox’s environmental impact. With LCA, I made impact-comparisons with single use containers and identified opportunities to reduce the environmental footprint for the lending system set up in HKUST.

"LCA is a powerful tool to help us design more sustainable products and I hope more people and organizations adopt this method to make positive environmental changes."

Life Cycle Lab Research Assistant (2024 Spring)

Year 3, BEng in Sustainable Energy Engineering