PEOPLE: Faculty
Jörg E. Drewes, CV (pdf), Director, Associate Professor. Dr.-Ing., Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Water and wastewater treatment engineering; potable and non-potable water reuse; state-of-the-art characterization of natural and effluent organic matter; contaminant transfer among environmental media; fate of endocrine disrupting compounds and pharmaceuticals in natural and engineered systems.
Tzahi Y. Cath, CV (pdf), Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno. Membrane processes for seawater and brackish water desalination and for wastewater reclamation and reuse; zero liquid discharge processes for enhancement of water recovery; optimization and energy recovery in water and wastewater treatment processes.
Pei Xu, CV (pdf),
Research Assistant Professor, PhD., French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF), France. Water and wastewater treatment technologies; membrane processes; desalination; potable and non-potable water reuse; produced water treatment; water resources management; desalination concentrate volume minimization; membrane fouling.
John R. Spear, Assistant Professor. PhD, Colorado School of Mines. Environmental Microbiology, Metal Bioremediation, Environmental Policy and Impact Analysis.
John McCray, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona; Contaminant hydrology, subsurface remediation, vadose-zone hydrology, subsurface vapor-transport, watershed hydrology, mathematical modeling, soil-based wastewater treatment.
Robert L. Siegrist, CV (pdf), PE, Division Director and Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Environmental characterization and risk assessment; subsurface manipulation and in situ treatment of contaminated land, water, and waste water treatment, and reuse in natural and alternative systems.