Dr. Reible is the Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering at the University of Texas and Coordinator of Environmental and Water Resources in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. In 2004 he joined the University of Texas after 23 years in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU). He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lamar University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Reible’s research career has been focused on understanding the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, evaluating the risks posed by these contaminants, and devising effective measures for risk mitigation. He has been active in technical and policy issues associated with the assessment and in-situ remediation of contaminated sites. He has coauthored four National Research Council committee reports on risk assessment and remediation of contaminated sites, is the author of the textbooks “Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering” and “Diffusion Models of Environmental Transport”, and has authored more than 100 refereed technical papers.
Dr. Reible currently serves on the National Research Council Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, the Journal of Environmental Forensics, and the Journal of Environmental Engineering. Dr. Reible is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Professional Engineer (LA) and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for the “development of widely used approaches for the management of contaminated sediments.