Professor
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, Biofilms, Membrane engineering, Bioreactor engineering, Multi-scale simulations, Water Treatment
Professor | Center Director
Research Interests: Biofouling, Water Treatment, Biofilms, Transport and distribution, Biological stability / regrowth, Microbial water quality, Membrane fouling, Biofilm monitors, On-line sensors
Professor | Director, Climate and Livability Initiative (CLI)
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Water security, Climate impacts, Precision agriculture, Unmanned aerial vehicles
Professor
Research Interests: Adsorption Desalination (AD), Thermal desalination,, Energy efficiency analysis with Standard Primary Energy, Direct Spray Evaporation and Condensation (DCSEC), Atmospheric Water Harvester (AWH), Solar energy applications, Sunlight (CPV) to formic acid (liquid hydrogen carrier), Indirect Evaporative Chiller (IEC), Coated-coil Mechanical Vapor Chiller (CCMVC) Dehumidifier
Professor
Research Interests: Forward Osmosis, Sustainable desalination, Membrane distillation, Hybrid systems, Membrane fouling and mitigation, Membrane cleaning, Renewable Energy
Professor
Research Interests: Water, Crystallization, Thermodynamics, Supercritical carbon dioxide, Natural deep eutectic solvents, Green solvents
Professor
Research Interests: Electromicrobiology, Microbial Electrochemistry, Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process, Aerobic Granular Sludge, water reuse, Resource recovery
Professor
Research Interests: Environmental Nanotechnology, Photothermal conversion, Solar steam generation, Desalination, Thermal processes, Zero-liquid discharge, Salt crystallization, Resource recovery
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Emerging microbial contaminants, water quality, wastewater multibarrier treatment technologies, water reuse, anaerobic processes
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Superhydrophobic insects and plants, Bio-inspired technologies for precision agriculture, coatings and membranes, Interfacial chemistries, Nanoconfined liquids
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests: Membrane technology, Innovative adsorbents, Ozone/advanced oxidation, River bank filtration and soil aquifer treatment, Natural organic matter and disinfection by-products, Organic and inorganic micropollutants
Research scientist
Research Interests: Green solvents, Water Treatment, Trace metal, Liquid membranes, NADES
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Environmental biotechnological applications in Biofouling, Bioremediation, Biodegradation, Electromicrobiology, Biocorrosion, Petroleum & Reservoir Microbiology, Molecular biology & Microbial ecology, Bioenergy
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Optimization chiller, Evaporative cooling, Dessicant dehumidification, Microwave dehumidification, Membrane dehumidification
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Bacteria engineering, Biocatalyst, Water safety
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Membrane filtration processes, Water desalination, Fouling, Spacer design, Material sciences, Catalysis, Chemical formulation
Research Scientist
Research Interests: SFA/AFM, Nano liquid, Instrument development, Spectroscopy, Biomimic, Nano fabrication
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Membrane separation processes, Water desalination, Catalytically active membranes, Advanced oxidation processes
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Process control, Modeling, Membrane processes, Optimization, System design, Pilot scale research, Membrane fouling, Membrane integrity
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Solar Energy Systems, Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV), Water Electrolysis, Ozone Water Treatment, Wastewater Electrolytic Treatment, Hydrogen Energy
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Water Treatment, Desalination, reverse osmosis, Biofouling, non-destructive imaging
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Agriculture, Satellite, High spatial resolution, Geographic object-based image analysis, UAV1, Airborne, Multi-spectral, LiDAR, Thermal, Hyper-spectral, Image processing
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Membrane fouling, In-situ monitoring, Water Treatment, Membrane distillation, Desalination
Senior Research Scientist
Research Interests: Electro-microbiology, Microbial electrochemical systems, Electrochemical membrane bioreactors, Molecular microbial ecology, Bioreactors (aerobic & anaerobic bioprocesses) design for waste treatment and fermentation processes
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, Biofilms architecture and ecology, Drinking water, Environmental biotechnology
Research Scientist
Research Interests: Process design and scale-up, Multi-scale modeling and simulation
Lab Technician
Research Interests: CAD designing, Rapid prototyping, Scientific glassblowing
Staff Scientist
Research Interests: Gas chromatography, Liquid chromatography, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Trace Analysis, Environmental analysis, Mass spectrometry, Electron Ionization, Collision induced dissociation
Research Specialist
Research Interests: Hydrology, Evapotranspiration, Agricultural monitoring, Crop health, Irrigation efficiency
Laboratory Manager
Research Interests: Microscopy, Sterility testing, Molecular biology
System Modelling and Data Specialist
Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Machine learning, Data Analytics and High Performance Computing (HPC)
Research Specialist
Research Interests: Water quality (analysis, treatment and monitoring)seawater desalination (SWRO/MD), Pretreatment, Membrane fouling/ scaling
Research Technician
Research Interests: Membrane distillation, Desalination, Clean water producing, Waste water treatment
Research Staff
Research Interests: Wastewater treatment, Anaerobic MBR, Heterogeneous Fenton oxidation
Research Specialist
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Hydrology, Water resources
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Molecular dynamics, Water dynamics and interfaces, Nanoconfined liquids, Soft-condensed matter
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Simulation process, Biotechnological science, Mechanistic and not-mechanistic models, Python, Matlab, Julia, C, Java
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Droplets, Liquid-infused surfaces, Wetting, Lattice Boltzmann, Oil-water separation
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: RO membrane, Scaling, LA-ICP-MS, Analytical chemistry
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Crop model, Evapotranspiration, Water stress, Water use efficiency, Remote sensing
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Dynamic filtration, Membrane material, Water purification, Aerobic Granular Sludge
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Synthetic aperture radar data, Optical data, LiDAR, Soil moisture, Biomass, Crop mapping, Crop parameters, Crop modeling
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Capacitative deionization, Polymer electrode, Ion selective collection
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Electromicrobiology, Microbial ecology, Microbial interactions, Waste to resources, Biocorrosion
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Agricultural monitoring, UAV remote sensing, Vegetation mapping, Aerial survey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Plant biology/ecology, Plant microbial interaction, Material engineering, Soil science, Irrigation management
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Anaerobic membrane reactor, Industrial wastewater, water reuse, Pathogen, Emerging contaminants, Membrane fouling
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Seawater desalination, Wastewater Treatment1, Membrane fabrication, Electrospinning, Forward Osmosis, Ultrafiltration
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Membrane distillation, Membrane fouling, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Renewable Energy, Microalgae
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Two-dimensional nanomaterials, Nanofluidics, Membrane, Energy harvesting
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Environmental Nanotechnology, Atmospheric Water Harvesting, Photothermal, Water desalination
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Forward osmosis membrane filtration, Biological treatment of wastewater, Water purification, Fate of chemical contaminants in water treatment
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Bio-inspired films, Photothermal materials
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: CFD modeling, Adsorption, Water desalination, Thermal management systems
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Condensation, Heat transfer, Desaliantion, Materials, CFD
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Microbial ecology of wastewater, Environmental microbiology, Bioremediation, Molecular biology techniques
Postdoctoral fellow
Research Interests: Solar water distillation and collection, Wastewater treatment
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Software engineering, Information science, Environmental engineering, Computer engineering, Agricultural engineering
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Biofouling, Scaling, Reverse osmosis membrane, Seawater desalination
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Wastewater treatments, Microbial ecology, Multi-Omics, Annamox, Bioelectrochemical systems
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Aerobic Granular Sludge, Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, Microbial ecology
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Microbial ecology, Electromicrobiology, Microbial wastewater treatment, Aerobic Granular Sludge, Biofilms, Bioreactors
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Processes simulation, Multi-scale simulations, Thermodynamics, Membrane engineering
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: Biodiversity, Conservation, Marine biology, Forest ecology, Halobates
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: Metaproteomics, Metabolomics, Wastewater treatments
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Electrosprays, Surfaces and interfaces, Nanoelectrochemistry, 2D materials
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Solar energy system, Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV), Sustainable cooling technologies, Desalination technologies
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: Wastewater treatment technologies, Solid waste treatment technologies, Nutrient recovery, Bioreactors, Bioprocesses, Modelling
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: SFA/AFM, Instrument development, Fluid Mechanics, Nano liquid
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Biological stability of water, Biofouling, Desalination, Membrane processes, Bottled water
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: Remote sensing, UAVs, Hyperspectral imaging, Precision agriculture
Ph.D. student
Research Interests: Hydrology, Water budget, Remote sensing, Water carbon cycle, Carbon footprint, Hydrological modeling, Water resources management, Water resources engineering
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Image processing, Cloud computing, Landcover classification, Agricultural monitoring, Air quality
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Remote sensing, Computer vision, AI, Oceanography, Agriculture
MS/Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Intermolecular and surface forces, Bio and soft matter physics, Wetting phenomena
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Water Treatment, Desalination, Biofouling, Membrane systems, Membrane cleaning
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Environmental engineering, Biological wastewater treatment, Environmental microbiology
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: NADES, Physical chemistry, Biological processes, biotechnology,, Biochemistry
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Biomimetics, Microfabrication, Wetting, Membrane distillation, Fluid dynamics, Surface science
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Membrane processes, Fouling control, Biofouling, Non-destructive characterization
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Water Treatment, Bioelectrochemical systems, Biofuels, Bioproducts
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Contact electrification, Superhydrophobicity, Surface wettability, Micro/Nanotextured surfaces, Materials characterization
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Membrane bioreactor, Biological wastewater treatments, biotechnology,, Organic micro-pollutants, water reuse
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Environmental biotechnology, Microbial ecology, Resource recovery, Wastewater treatment
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Innovative adsorbents, Water desalination, Phosphorus recovery, Inorganic crystallization, Reactor design and modeling
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Metagenomics
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Environmental nanomaterials, Water desalination, Wastewater treatment, Clean water production, Membranes, Heat recovery, Brine, Bacterial inhibition, Solar cells, Membrane distillation
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Wastewater treatment
M.S./ Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Interfaces, Superhydrophobicity, Surface wettability, Materials characterization
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, Bioinformatics, Microbial indicators, Biocorrosion, Microbial enhanced oil recovery
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Wastewater treatment, Membrane fouling, In-situ monitoring