Dr. Cath is a professor of environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. His main field of research is membrane and biological processes for wastewater treatment, desalination of saline and hypersaline brines, reclamation of impaired water for potable reuse, and energy from water and wastewater. Dr. Cath is a PI on many research projects focusing on the integration of membrane contactor processes in seawater and brackish water desalination, in domestic and industrial wastewater treatment (including oil & gas wastewater), and in life support systems. Additional research...Read more
Chuck Gerba is a professor in the Departments Environmental Science (College of Life Sciences and Agriculture), and Community and Environmental Health (College of Public Health) at the University of Arizona. He has been an author on more than 700 articles including several books in environmental microbiology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Microbiology, and the International Water Association. He received the McKee Award for groundwater protection research from the Water Environment Federation in 1996 and the AP Black...Read more
Dr. Steven Conrad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at Colorado State University. He has conducted research and consulted with the water and energy industry for over 25 years on the coupling of social and engineering sciences to inform decision making, the quantification and modelling of system function, and policies and planning as applied to urban energy and water systems, agriculture, and climate change adaptation. Dr. Conrad has degrees in Engineering, Psychology, Environmental Technology Management and Resource and Environmental Management.
Elizabeth Wayne is a TED Fellow and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.
Dr.Wayne received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and Moelis Access Science Scholar. Dr. Wayne continued her education at Cornell University, where her research on the role of immune cells in cancer progression and their potential as drug delivery carriers was supported by funding from the National Cancer Institute Physical Sciences in Oncology Network and the...Read more
Alec Nielsen is co-founder and CEO of Asimov, a Boston-based startup building a mammalian cell programming platform to advance next-gen therapeutics. Alec holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from MIT Biological Engineering. His work focuses on scalable biochemistries for synthetic biology, computer-aided design of cellular functions, and machine learning applications in genetic design and biosecurity.Read more
2019 South Texas Section – AIChE Distinguished Service Award John Middleton displays his 2019 Distinguished Service Award Plaque. John received a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Chemical Engineering Degree from Oklahoma State University. He has worked most of his career in the EPC...
Dr. Daniel Gerrity earned his Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University. After graduation, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Southern Nevada Water Authority and as a Senior Engineer for Trussell Technologies. Dr. Gerrity then spent 7 years as an Assistant and Associate Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Dr. Gerrity is now a Principal Research Scientist in Water Quality R&D at SNWA, leading the Research Microbiology division. His team is applying principles of wastewater-based...Read more
Christobel has a Biomedical Science degree and a Master of Science from the University of Technology Sydney and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. Christobel worked as a Microbiologist in the water, environment, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sectors for Sydney Water, Burns Philp, Reckitt and Colman, Tecra Diagnostics and Sydney Catchment Authority.
She has experience as a Project Director and Project Manager leading a water science consulting team for Ecowise Environmental, ALS Water Resources and GHD. She spent several years managing a portfolio of Research...Read more
Syed A. Ahmed is an Senior Process Engineer at Saudi Aramco Engineering Services. His field of expertise include crude oil and produced water processing with focus on circularity, product quality compliance and digitization. He is leading multiple collaborative research and development efforts to deploy hybrid AI models for product quality compliance and the produced water reuse program in Saudi Aramco’s oil operations. He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from KAUST, Saudi Arabia.Read more
