School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Environmental faculty

Keeping the environment and you healthy

Faculty are sought out for their expertise in water quality issues, drinking water treatment, water reuse, biological treatment, salinity/brine disposal, public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism and exposure assessment, risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, modeling and data analysis, bio-degradation of toxic compounds, intestinal microbial ecology-obesity, intestinal microbial ecology-autism, bio-energy and bio-prospecting/microbial metabolic exploration and analytical chemistry in environmental engineering.

Researchers are known for their work in environmental geochemistry, the food, water and energy nexus, biochemical pathway discovery, large-scale algae cultivation, algae-based wastewater treatment systems, algal strain characterization, environmental biotechnology, biofilms, resource recovery, modeling, microbial ecology, electrochemical water treatment, adsorption and in-situ electro-regeneration; statistical modeling, nanotechnology, impacts to groundwater resources from leaking underground storage tanks, oxygen injection technologies for in-situ permeable reactive barriers, antibiotic and metal resistance in bacteria, environmental endocrine disruption, wastewater epidemiology, and solid waste management.

Research specialties include soil and groundwater microbial processes, microbial chain elongation, bioremediation of halogenated compounds, petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals, conversion of biomass to biochemicals, microbial kinetics and bioreactors for environmental biotechnology.

Morteza Abbaszadegan

Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Abbaszadegan’s work focuses on contemporary water quality issues concerning health-related water microbiology. He is director of the WET Center at ASU and a professor of environmental microbiology and engineering.

Absar Alum

Research Assistant Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Alum’s areas of expertise include health related environmental microbiology, microbial pathogen survival and detection and endocrine disrupting chemicals in water.

Jirapat Ananpattarachai

Research Assistant Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Jirapat Ananpattarachai is an assistant research professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment (SSEBE) at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, (Thailand), followed by a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). She received her doctorate in Environmental Engineering from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand). After completing her doctorate, she works as a lecturer in the Environmental Engineer’s program at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Naresuan University, Thailand, before joining ASU in Oct 2021. Previously, her…

Mackenzie Boyer

Assistant Teaching Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Boyer’s research interests include Water Conservation.

Treavor Boyer

Professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Boyer’s research focuses on drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery. Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Environmental Engineering.