Meet the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology Board Members

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Abstract

The launch of this journal would not have been possible without the hard work and collaboration of our very professional and capable Editorial Board. They have advised us every step of the way to achieve this successful launch and publication of our first issue. Consequently, we thought that our readers would appreciate knowing a little more about each Board Member and have therefore posted images and mini-biographies below.

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Editor-in-Chief: David M. Cwiertny

David M. Cwiertny is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. David is a core faculty member in the Water Sustainability Initiative, developing interdisciplinary research, outreach and education programs intended to increase water awareness across the state of Iowa. His research interests are materials-based treatment strategies for water and wastewater and chemical transformations pathways for emerging contaminant classes in a natural aquatic system. David earned his BS in Environmental Engineering from the University of California Berkeley and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, Engineers without Borders, American Geophysical Union and Tau Beta Pi. In 2010 he received the Environmental Science & Technology Excellence in Review Award from the ACS.

Associate Editor: Stuart Khan

After completing his BS in Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney, Stuart Khan earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering at his current institute, the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he is now an Associate Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. His research aims to facilitate the improvement of sustainable urban water management by improving the understanding of water treatment capabilities, water quality monitoring and risk management. His research interests include the implications of trace chemical substances in water, the role of potable reuse in securing future sustainable water supplies and chiral transformations of chemical substances during wastewater treatment. As well as being Chair of the Management Committee of the Australian Water Association (AWA) Water Recycling Specialist Network Committee, Stuart is also a member of Engineers Australia, the Water Quality Advisory Committee (WQAC) to the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Project Review team for Water Research Australia and the Management Committee of the International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group on Water Reclamation and Reuse.

Associate Editor: Tamar Kohn

Tamar Kohn is an Associate Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, where she heads the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory. The aim of Tamar's research is to understand the fundamental principles and processes that lead to improved water quality in natural and engineered systems, including pertinent water quality issues such as viral pathogens and organic micropollutants. She uses a combination of (photo-) chemical, molecular biological and modelling tools to gain knowledge enabling the improvement of existing water treatment systems and development of novel, more effective methods. Having completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Tamar became a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007 she moved back to Switzerland where she joined the faculty at EPFL as an Assistant Professor.

Associate Editor: Paige Novak

Paige Novak is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she heads a research group, specializing in research on the biological transformation of hazardous substances in sediment, groundwater and wastewater. After earning her BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia, Paige completed her MS and her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. Currently, Paige works both in the laboratory and in the field, trying to understand the interactions between microorganisms and environmental conditions. She is a currently a member of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors after being on their board of directors until 2006. In 2013 Paige won the Sara Evans Woman Scholar/Leader Award, presented by the Office for Faculty and Academic Affairs and the Women's Center at the University of Minnesota. She also won the Bill Boyle Educator of the Year Award from the Central States Water Environment Association. Previously, Paige has been awarded with the Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow and the Paul L. Busch Award.

Board Member: Mike Elovitz

Mike Elovitz earned his BS in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University and his PhD in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Oregon Health and Science University. He is currently a Research Scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He conducts research for the Treatment Technology Evaluation Branch in the Water Supply and Water Resources Division of the Office of Research and Development's National Risk Management Research Laboratory.

Board Member: Jeremy S. Guest

Jeremy S. Guest is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the development of technologies and decision-making tools that increase access to, and the sustainability of, environmental infrastructure. He is primarily focusing on sanitation and the development of biotechnologies that manage wastewater as a renewable resource for energy production, chemical production, and nutrient and water recovery. Before earning his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Jeremy completed his BS at Bucknell University and his MS at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, both qualifications earned were in Civil Engineering. In 2014 Jeremy received an Excellence in Review Award from Environmental Science & Technology as well as a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Board Member: Yunho Lee

Yunho Lee earned his PhD in the Chemical Engineering Department of Seoul National University in Korea. Before taking up his current position as an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Science & Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Yunho was a postdoctoral researcher at EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. His current research interests are in drinking water quality and treatment, and wastewater reclamation and resource recovery. His group are researching the fate and treatment of organic contaminants of concern in natural and technical water systems, with focuses on environmental redox processes.

Board Member: Long Nghiem

Long Nghiem earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia where he is now an Associate Professor for the School of Civil Mining and Environmental Engineering. Long completed a research fellowship at the University of Melbourne before returning to the University of Wollongong in 2006 as a Lecturer in the School of Civil Mining and Environmental Engineering. His current research interests cover a range of membrane separation processes, including pressure driven membrane filtration, forward osmosis, membrane distillation, facilitated transport membrane, membrane electrolysis, and membrane bioreactor. Long is currently a managing committee member of the International Water Association (IWA) Special Group on Membrane Technology as well as Vice President of the Membrane Society of Australasia. He won the Best Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award at the Challenges to Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) conference in both 2011 and 2012.

Board Member: Lutgarde Raskin

Lutgarde Raskin is the Altarum/ERIM Russell O'Neal Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan, USA. She completed a BS and MS in Environmental Science and Engineering, as well as a BS in Economic Sciences, all at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Lutgarde earned her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has since worked on a variety of biological water and wastewater treatment processes. Her current research focuses on anaerobic microbial processes for energy recovery from waste streams, and microbial processes in drinking water systems, including biological filtration, disinfection, and microbial ecology of distribution systems and premise plumbing. In her research, she uses cutting-edge molecular tools to characterize and optimize water quality process performance. Lutgarde was recently awarded the Monroe-Brown Foundation Research Excellence Award, and was selected for both the Elected Fellow Water Environment Federation and the Elected Fellow American Academy of Microbiology.

Board Member: Michael Templeton

Michael Templeton is a chartered civil engineer and Senior Lecturer in Public Health Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. His research aims to develop engineering solutions to public health challenges relating to water supply and sanitation. Michael earned his BS in Engineering Science and his PhD in Civil-Environmental Engineering, both at the University of Toronto in Canada. He is Chair of the Water Supply and Quality Panel, Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), a member of the Water and Wastewater Expert Panel, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Vice-President for Europe, Middle East and Asia region, Executive Organising Committee, International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA). Michael recently received the President and Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2013 from Imperial College London.

Board Member: Peter Vikesland

Peter Vikesland is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Peter completed his MS and PhD in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. He originally joined Virginia Tech in 2002 as an Assistant Professor, after completing his postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University. Peter's current research interests include nanomaterials in the environment and improved sensors for drinking water. His research on the environmental implications of nanotechnology examines the effects of solution chemistry on the aggregation and dissolution of environmentally relevant nanoparticles. Peter is the co-director of the Virginia Tech Sustainable Nanotechnology Center (VTSuN) and the director of the Virginia Tech Sustainable Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program.

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