{"id":411,"date":"2024-07-24T10:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/directory\/?page_id=411"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:27:28","slug":"environmental","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/directory\/ssebe\/environmental\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uds-hero-sm alignfull has-btn-row \" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-8);\"><div class=\"hero-overlay\"><\/div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/directory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/08\/Eweek-Assets-2022-websizes-v23-3x2-hero-bkgd-1.jpg\" class=\"hero\" alt=\"Background image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/directory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/08\/Eweek-Assets-2022-websizes-v23-3x2-hero-bkgd-1.jpg 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and the Built Environment<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b604b3a7e3076166ab56ac6a2eb46758\"><span class=\"highlight-gold\">Environmental<\/span> faculty<\/h1>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-930feb06 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"sidebar-toggler\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#sidebar-ssebe-sidebar\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"sidebar-ssebe-sidebar\">\n\t<p>Select a page<\/p>\n\t<span class=\"fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<nav id=\"sidebar-ssebe-sidebar\" class=\"sidebar collapse\" aria-label=\"Secondary\"><div class=\"nav-link-container\"><a class=\"nav-link  menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\" 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href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/directory\/ssebe\/sustainable-engineering\/\">Sustainable Engineering<\/a><a class=\"nav-link  menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/directory\/ssebe\/transportation-pavements\/\">Transportation and Pavements<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"nav-link-container\"><a class=\"nav-link  menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\" href=\"https:\/\/ssebe.engineering.asu.edu\">SSEBE Website<\/a><\/div><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keeping the environment and you healthy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"uds-profile-grid col-one\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-6);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--uds-size-6);\"><div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/239084?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Morteza Abbaszadegan\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/239084\">Morteza Abbaszadegan<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Abbaszadegan&#8217;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.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/335208?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Absar Alum\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/335208\">Absar Alum<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Research Assistant Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Alum&#8217;s areas of expertise include health related environmental microbiology, microbial pathogen survival and detection and endocrine disrupting chemicals in water.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/4061795?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Jirapat Ananpattarachai\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/4061795\">Jirapat Ananpattarachai<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Research Assistant Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">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&#8217;s degree in Environmental Engineering from the King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology Thonburi, (Thailand), followed by a master&#8217;s degree in Environmental Management from the Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). She received her doctorate in Environmental Engineering from King Mongkut\u2019s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand). After completing her doctorate, she works as a lecturer in the Environmental Engineer\u2019s program at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Naresuan University, Thailand, before joining ASU in Oct 2021. Previously, her&#8230;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/3365293?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Mackenzie Boyer\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/3365293\">Mackenzie Boyer<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Assistant Teaching Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Boyer&#8217;s research interests include Water Conservation.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/2940424?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Treavor Boyer\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/2940424\">Treavor Boyer<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Boyer&#8217;s research focuses on drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery. Undergraduate\/Graduate Program Chair for Environmental Engineering.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/2752178?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Otakuye Conroy-Ben\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/2752178\">Otakuye Conroy-Ben<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Associate Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Conroy-Ben&#8217;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.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/79419?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Paul Dahlen\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/79419\">Paul Dahlen<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Research Assistant Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Dahlen&#8217;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<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/877355?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Anca Delgado\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/877355\">Anca Delgado<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Associate Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Delgado\u2019s research focuses on natural and synthetic microbiomes for treatment of contaminants and production of high-value biochemicals. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/20127?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Peter Fox\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/20127\">Peter Fox<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">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<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/3045688?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Sergio Garcia Segura\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/3045688\">Sergio Garcia Segura<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Assistant Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Garcia-Segura&#8217;s expertise includes electrochemical water treatment.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/1114611?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Rolf Halden\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/1114611\">Rolf Halden<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Center Director and Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Halden&#8217;s research interests are public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism and exposure assessment.\r\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/1715462?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Kerry Hamilton\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/1715462\">Kerry Hamilton<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Associate Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Hamilton&#8217;s research focuses on risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, and modeling and data analysis.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/866864?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/866864\">Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Center Director and Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>Biodesign Center for Health Through Microbiomes<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Krajmalnik-Brown&#8217;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.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/2615459?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Peter Lammers\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/2615459\">Peter Lammers<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Research Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Lammers&#8217; expertise includes plant physiology, biochemistry and wastewater treatment.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/5150990?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Matthew Landsman\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/5150990\">Matthew Landsman<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Assistant Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Landsman&#8217;s expertise is in water quality, chemistry, polymer membranes, reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, physical and chemical treatment processes.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/775256?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Bruce Rittmann\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/775256\">Bruce Rittmann<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Center Director and Regents Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Rittmann is a Regent&#8217;s Professor and the 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. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/5173035?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Nidia Rojas\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/5173035\">Nidia Rojas<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Research Assistant Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><ul class=\"person-contact-info\"><li><a href=\"mailto:nrojasro@asu.edu\" aria-label=\"Mail to: nrojasro@asu.edu\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"internal link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"nrojasro\" data-ga=\"nrojasro@asu.edu\">nrojasro@asu.edu<\/a><\/li><li>777 university<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/654411?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Shahnawaz Sinha\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/654411\">Shahnawaz Sinha<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Research Associate Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Sinha&#8217;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.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img src=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/photo-ws\/directory_photo\/5134153?blankImage2=1\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"Portrait of Tiezheng Tong\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/5134153\">Tiezheng Tong<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>Associate Professor<\/span><\/h4><h4><span>School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment<\/span><\/h4><\/div><div><p class=\"person-description\">Tong&#8217;s research focuses on desalination and water purification. 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