Dr Alejandro Gallego Schmid
Senior Lecturer in Circular Economy and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment at the University of Manchester
- Founder member of SHADE
Biography
Alejandro brings his expertise in the circular economy and life cycle sustainability assessment to the SHADE Centre. With a background in environmental science and environmental engineering, he quantifies the level of circularity and environmental, economic, and social sustainability of different products and processes and proposes improvements. Alejandro is currently investigating the environmental impacts of digital services on health and well-being in the home.
As part of SHADE, he aims to explore the nexus between the circular economy, sustainability, and digitalisation.
Further details
Research
SHADE Research Hub
SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. SHADE is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, SHADE draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.
Research
SHADE Research Hub
SHADE sits at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies and the Environment. SHADE is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles? To address this SHADE promotes interdisciplinary enquiry to understand and make visible sustainable practices situated in specific geographical and societal contexts. Undertaking both normative and solutions based research, SHADE draws on empirical, epistemic and ethical perspectives from philosophy, law, sociology and ethics, as well as from more quantitative approaches such as life cycle sustainability assessment.