Julie B. Zimmerman, who earned her degree in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Virginia, has been named editor-in-chief of Environmental Science & Technology, a publication of the American Chemical Society and a top environmental engineering journal. Zimmerman, who also held a civil engineering faculty appointment from 2005-2010 at the School of Engineering, is a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at Yale University.
According to an announcement in Chemical & Engineering News, Zimmerman has been an associate editor of Environmental Science & Technology since 2012. Her research focuses on water treatment, environmental implications and applications of nanotechnology, and the integrated biorefinery. She is a coauthor of the textbook “Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sustainability, and Design.” She recently testified before the House Committee on Science and Technology on the Sustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2019.
Zimmerman told Chemical & Engineering News that she hopes under her leadership the journal will “become a genuine catalyst for integrated systems thinking.”
“ ‘We are not going to save the world with the same fragmented thinking that got us into these problems and we aren't going to solve them with fragmented solutions,' ” Zimmerman said in the news release. “ ‘This coming generation of problem-solvers will use the interconnectedness of our systems as a pathway toward global restoration and Environmental Science & Technology will be supporting and facilitating this work every day.' ”