Eric Williams received a B.A. in Physics from Macalester College in Minnesota in 1988 and a PhD in Physics from Stony Brook University in New York in 1993. From 1997 to 2005 he was Project Coordinator at United Nations University in Tokyo. Eric was Assistant Professor at Arizona from 2006 to 2011 and currently is a Professor of Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. He is author of around 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and editor of two books. Eric’s broad research interest is the evolution of technology, society, and sustainability. His prior work mostly addressed sustainable electronics and energy systems and methodological approaches used include environmental assessment, consumer behavior, uncertainty analysis, and technological forecasting.