Hessam Azarijafari, PhD, is Deputy Director of the Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) at MIT. His background is in industrial ecology and its application to construction management and engineering. As a principal investigator and researcher, Azarijafari has led various projects related to the life cycle sustainability assessment and the nexus of pavements, buildings, and vehicles.
He is a voting and advisory member of several technical committees on sustainable construction and environmental assessment, including the FHWA Sustainable Pavement Working Group, NIST Consortium for Low Carbon Cement and Concrete, ACI 323 â Low-Carbon Concrete Code, and ACI 130 - Sustainability in Concrete. Azarijafari has been chairing the ACI eco-concrete competition since 2017, which aims to promote and educate undergraduate civil engineering students on life cycle sustainability. He received his PhD from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada in 2018.