Kirsten Rosselot is an environmental performance consultant. She taught an upper division/graduate student elective on pollution prevention in the chemical engineering department at California State University, Long Beach for two years and has co-authored many handbooks, textbooks, and other teaching and outreach materials. She has served on many technical peer review panels for EPA grants and graduate research scholarships and has served as a scientific reviewer for submissions to journals such as Environmental Science and Technology, the Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment, and the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. She served as associate editor of a special issue on applications of material flow analysis for the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Kirsten graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1990 (cum laude). She is a licensed professional chemical engineer in California (#CH 5041) and is a member of the American Chemical Society (where she has served as co-chair on sessions about methane), the International Society for Industrial Ecology, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (where she served on the Virtual Local Section Executive Committee as chair and programming director, 2018-2023).