Akos Kokai, PhD

What I do

I work on mobilizing knowledge for decision-making about sustainable production. I currently support product life cycle analysis and supply chain environmental analysis at Apple.

I’m a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, where I worked with Alastair Iles. While there, I helped teach courses in the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry and did participatory research with the Healthy Building Network focusing on their chemical hazard data system, Pharos. Earlier, I did research in green chemistry and chemicals policy at UC Berkeley’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. And before that, organic, organometallic & supramolecular chemistry.

I really enjoy making music, cycling, gardening, and meditation. ▸▸

Mentors and collaborators

I’ve been grateful to work with and learn from so many amazing people, some of whom I thank here by name:

Interdisciplinary environmental studies | Alastair Iles, Meg Schwarzman, Christine Rosen, Rachel Morello-Frosch

Systems change | Mike Wilson, Marty Mulvihill, Tom Lent, Ann Blake, Art Fong, Ken Geiser

Chemistry | Bob Bergman, Ken Raymond, Andrei Yudin, and many supportive colleagues

Technology | ekansa, mahmoud, merges, evmar, and everyone who has kindly shared their knowledge and time