Environmental faculty

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.

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

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…

Boyer’s research interests include Water Conservation.

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.

Conroy-Ben’s research focuses on the biological effects of polluted water. Her research interests include environmental endocrine disruption, metal and antibiotic resistance in bacteria and wastewater epidemiology.

Dahlen’s research involves the assessment and remediation of hydrocarbon impacts to soil, groundwater and indoor air quality as well as oxygen injection technologies for in-situ permeable reactive barriers

Delgado’s research focuses on natural and synthetic microbiomes for treatment of contaminants and production of high-value biochemicals.

Ersan’s research interests include adsorption and in-situ electro-regeneration, statistical modeling and nanotechnology.

Fox has focused his work on natural treatment systems and water reuse for the last 12 years. His expertise is in water reuse biological treatment and salinity and brine disposal

Garcia-Segura’s expertise includes electrochemical water treatment.

Halden’s research interests are public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism and exposure assessment.

Hamilton’s research focuses on risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, and modeling and data analysis.

Krajmalnik-Brown’s research focuses on bio-degradation of toxic compounds, intestinal microbial ecology-obesity, intestinal microbial ecology-autism, bio-energy, and bio-prospecting/microbial metabolic exploration.

Lammers’ expertise includes plant physiology, biochemistry and wastewater treatment.

Landsman’s expertise is in water quality, chemistry, polymer membranes, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, physical and chemical treatment proceses.

Perrault uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining microbiology, chemistry, and nanotechnology, to address critical issues related to water quality and water treatment.

Rittmann is director of the Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology. He is an international leader in the use of microbial communities to provide services to society.

Sinha’s primary area of research is in the area of drinking water, water treatment plant optimization, water quality research, pilot-scale studies, seawater and brackish water desalination and industrial water treatment.

Tong’s research focuses on desalination and water purification. He has received numerous awards, including the 2022 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.

Westerhoff’s research focuses on environmental geochemistry; food, water, and energy nexus; drinking water treatment and water quality.