Annick Anctil
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Dr. Annick Anctil is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental engineering (75%) and AgBio Research (25%), where she leads research on anticipatory sustainability assessment. She uses proactive sustainability assessment to reduce the environmental and cost impact of new technologies. Dr. Anctil has extensive experience with life-cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic assessment (TEA). The core of her research is evaluating the environmental impact of photovoltaics and battery technologies, particularly the effect of mining and recycling materials for energy applications. She uses life cycle assessment to identify critical steps in current technologies and guide greener alternatives by combining theoretical and experimental environmental assessment. She is the assistant director of the DOE-MSU Industrial Assessment Center and received an NSF CAREER award in 2021 to work on the impact of the solar photovoltaics industry in the US. She participated in the NSF International Standard on Sustainability Leadership for Photovoltaics Module and the EPEAT Ultra-low carbon solar modules criteria based on her expertise in manufacturing. She has received funding from various sources, including NSF, USDA, DOE, Ford, MI Environment Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and various industrial partners. She is on the Michigan Institute for Energy Innovation (IEI) board of directors and on the Scientific Committee for Critical and Strategic Materials for the Quebec Government (Canada).
Education
- Ph.D., Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology 2011
- M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology 2007
- B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada 2005
Selected Publications
- Yuan L, Farina A, Nain P, Anctil A, “Comparing Carbon and Energy Impact of Future Silicon Photovoltaic Manufacturing in China and North America”, Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.06.014
- Farina A, Kutay E, Anctil A, “Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design to Include Mechanical Performance of Rubberized Asphalt Pavements in the Use Stage of Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Product Declaration”, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 206 July 2024, 107618, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107618
- Yuan L, Nain, Preeti, Kothari M, Anctil A, “ Material intensity and Life Cycle Impacts of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules Over Time”, Solar Energy, 2024
- Hanna F, Anctil A, “Material Availability Assessment Using System Dynamics: The Case of Tellurium” Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 2023 Accepted, https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.3760
- Anctil A, Beattie M, Case C, Chaudhary A, Crysler B, Debije MG,& Zhu X (2024). “Status report on emerging photovoltaics” Journal of Photonics for Energy 13(4), 042301-042301, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.13.042301
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Awards
- Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship - MSU Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2022)
- Withrow Teaching Award – Civil & Environmental Engineering - MSU 2020
- Michigan Clean Energy Leader – 2018
- Academy for Global Engagement Fellow - MSU 2017-2018
- Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT) Fellowship (2007-2010)
- Best student presentation Area 10: 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2010)
- Excellence in Science National Grand Prize Quebec (2004)
- American Society for Materiayadls (ASM) school chapter annual prize (2004)
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