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Anne-Marie Boulay
M.Sc.A., Ph.D.Chemical Engineering

Research interests and affiliations

Research interests
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Impact assessment in LCA
  • Water Footprint
  • Environmental impacts of plastic litter
  • Marine impacts in LCA
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 1007 Water resources and supply
  • 4503 Surface water
  • 4504 Groundwater
  • 4705 Ecotoxicology
  • 7003 Renewable and non-renewable resources management
  • 1500 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Publications

Recent publications
Journal article
Askham, C., Pauna, V.H., Boulay, A.-M., Fantke, P., Jolliet, O., Lavoie, J., Booth, A.M., Coutris, C., Verones, F., Weber, M., Vijver, M.G., Lusher, A. & Hajjar, C. (2023). Generating environmental sampling and testing data for micro- and nanoplastics for use in life cycle impact assessment. Science of The Total Environment, 859(Pt 2), 13 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160038
Journal article
Corella-Puertas, E., Guieu, P., Aufoujal, A., Bulle, C. & Boulay, A.-M. (2022). Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 13 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13269
Journal article
Debarre, L., Boulay, A.-M. & Margni, M. (2022). Freshwater consumption and domestic water deprivation in LCIA: revisiting the characterization of human health impacts. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 27(5), 740-754. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-022-02054-9
Journal article
Pfister, S., Scherer, L., Boulay, A.-M., Motoshita, M., Nunez, M., Damiani, M., Manzardo, A., Huang, J., Link, A., Bunsen, J. & Berger, M. (2022). Letter to the editor re: "The scarcity-weighted water footprint provides unreliable water sustainability scoring" by Vanham and Mekonnen, 2021. Science of the Total Environment, 825, 5 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154108

Biography

Anne-Marie Boulay graduated from Chemical Engineering at McGill University in 2006. After working as a consultant, she integrated CIRAIG’s team at École Polytechnique of Montreal and obtained her Ph.D. in 2013 on the assessment of water use impacts in LCA. It is for this work that she received the SETAC Europe Young Scientist Award in 2014. After more than 10 years on the topic of Life Cycle Impact Assessment, she has become an expert on water footprint, providing water footprint training for UNEP and ISO in developing countries around the world and she is the Canadian chair of ISO sub-committee on Life Cycle Assessment (TC207/SC5). She is now an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal and CIRAIG. She is currently chairing the WULCA working group on water use in LCA of UN Environment, the LEAP working group of FAO on water footprint and the MARILCA working group (UN Environment and FSLCI) on marine impacts, specifically plastic litter, in LCA. These working groups are leading the international consensus building processes and the scientific work into achieving harmonized methods for assessing important impact pathways in LCA, involving key method developers and stakeholders through international collaborative efforts.

Education

  • B.Eng. McGill University
  • Master Chemical Engineering Polytechnique Montréal
  • Doctorat Chemical Engineering Polytechnique Montréal

Supervision at Polytechnique

COMPLETED

  • Ph.D. Thesis (1)

    • Viveros Santos, I. (2022). Modélisation de l'influence du changement climatique sur l'écotoxicité terrestre du cuivre dans le cadre de l'analyse du cycle de vie prospective : application à la filière vitivinicole (Ph.D. Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/10540/

News about Anne-Marie Boulay

NEWS | April 27, 2023
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Press review about Anne-Marie Boulay

December 11, 2021, Le Devoir, Développer des outils pour éclairer nos choix Dans cet article, Anne-Marie Boulay, professeure adjointe au Département de génie chimique de Polytechnique Montréal, et Manuele Margni, professeur titulaire au Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel (Polytechnique Montréal, MAGI), qui sont membres du CIRAIG, discutent à propos de l’établissement d’indicateurs communs pour la mesure de l’impact environnemental et l’analyse du cycle de vie des produits, services ou procédés.  
August 17, 2021, La Presse +, Crise climatique : concrètement, que peut faire le citoyen? Dans cet article, Anne-Marie-Boulay, professeure adjointe au Département de génie chimique de Polytechnique Montréal et membre du Centre international de référence sur le cycle de vie des produits, procédés et services (CIRAIG), discute à propos des principaux secteurs d’activités d’où proviennent les émissions de gaz à effet de serre produites par les ménages québécois.
April 21, 2021, Le Devoir, Pas de solution miracle pour remplacer le plastique Anne-Marie Boulay, membre du CIRAIG et professeure adjointe au Département de génie chimique de Polytechnique Montréal et Jean-François Ménard, analyste au CIRAIG, discutent du cycle de vie des sacs de plastique.