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LCA specialist profile

Shabbir H. Gheewala

Professor

The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE) - King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

Shabbir H. Gheewala is a professor at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE), Thailand where he teaches Life Cycle Assessment and has led the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Lab for almost 25 years. His research focuses on sustainability assessment of energy systems; sustainability indicators; circular economy; and certification issues in biofuels and the agro-industry. He is a national expert on life cycle inventory as well as product carbon and water footprinting in Thailand. He mentors the research network on sustainability assessment and policy for food, fuel and climate change in Thailand. Along with graduate teaching and research, Shabbir has worked extensively with industry in Thailand providing training and consultancy to scores of companies with aspirations towards improvements in sustainability. In 2026, he was distinguished as a foreign member of the Luxembourg Academy of Sciences and Arts in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Sustainable Systems. In 2025, he was invited to join the International Resource Panel of UNEP. He has been ranked as one of the world’s top 1000 most influential climate scientists (Reuter’s Hot List 2021) and the world's top 1% of the most-cited researchers in environmental sciences during 2020-2025. He was awarded the “Mahidol Science Environment & Sustainability Award” in 2022, and National Champion for the Frontiers Planet Prize in 2025. With over 400 papers in peer reviewed journals and a Scopus h-index of 65, he is the Specialty Chief Editor of Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at Frontiers in Sustainability, and on the editorial boards of Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), Energy Nexus (Elsevier), International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (Springer), and a host of other journals.