Lynette Cheah is Professor and Chair of Sustainable Transport at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. She directs the Sustainable Urban Mobility research laboratory, which develops data-driven models and tools to reduce the environmental impacts of passenger and urban freight transport. She was a Fellow with the Martin Family Society for Sustainability and winner of the $100K Singapore Challenge Prize in the Global Young Scientists Summit 2013. She is Handling Editor for Transportation Research Record, Associate Editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology and served as Review Editor for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. From 2023-2026, she is a Coordinating Lead Author for UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) report.
Professional Memberships
- International Society of Industrial Ecology
Awards/Fellowships
- 2023 Co-author, Best Applied Research Paper Award, TRB Standing Committee on Urban Freight Transportation (AT025)
- 2021 Google exploreCS Research Award
- 2020 Co-author, Best Paper Award, Resources, Conservation & Recycling journal
- 2020 Co-author, Graedel Prize for the Best Paper by a Junior Author, Journal of Industrial Ecology
- 2018 Institution of Engineers Singapore Outstanding Volunteer Award
- 2017 Finalist, ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women
- 2013 $100K Singapore Challenge prize, Global Young Scientists Summit
Research areas
- Life cycle assessment
- Transport modelling and simulation
- Electric vehicles
- Urban freight