Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory | U of I

Highlights

Ph.D. minor, Chemistry, Stanford University, 1997
Ph.D., Civil/Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 1997

Research Interests:

My research focuses on the reactive transport of pollutants in porous media, and on the development of sustainable water treatment technologies for pollution treatment.

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Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements:

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching:

• National Academy of Engineerings First Annual Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium, Invited Participant
• BP Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction
• List of teachers ranked as excellent by their students for CEE330
• List of teachers ranked as excellent by their students for CEE440
• List of teachers ranked as excellent by their students for CEE540
• Collins teaching fellow
• General Electric teaching fellow
• General Electric teaching scholar

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research:

• One of the three most read articles in Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Werth et al., A review of non-invasive imaging methods and applications in contaminant hydrology research.
• American Water Works Association Thomas R. Camp Scholarship for my graduate student, Jong Kwon Choe
• Wiley Research Fellow, DOE’s Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory
• User Advisory Committee, DOE’s Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory
• Editors Choice Award, Environmental Science and Technology, Best Papers of 2010, 2nd Runner-up in the category of Technology, (Zhang et al., ES&T, 2010)
• NANO conference, Student platform presentation award for my graduate student, Danmeng Shuai
• Grand Challenge Student Paper Award for my graduate student, Danmeng Shuai, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
• Invited presentation at Gordon Research Conference
• Invited speaker and participant, NSF workshop on contaminated groundwater plumes, Univ. Kansas
• Invited speaker & participant, Aquaterra Biogeochemical Workshop, Tuebingen, Germany
• Arthur and Virginia Nauman Faculty Scholar
• Invited speaker and participant, NSF US-Israeli Workshop on Nanotechnology for Water Purification
• Invited speaker and participant, German – American workshop on Biogeochemical Gradients, Sponsored by the German National Science Foundation
• Fulbright Research Fellowship Awardee (declined and accepted Humboldt)
• Humboldt Research Fellowship Award
• Invited speaker and participant, NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program DNAPL workshop, Tucson, AZ
• Best Student Presentation Awards for two of my graduate students at the 2001 Spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union
• Environmental Engineering and Science Faculty Scholar
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Public Service:

• Guest Editor of special issue in Environmental Science and Technology that focused on Environmental and Geochemical Aspects of Geological Carbon Sequestration.
• 2012 Excellence in Reviewing Award from the journal "Environmental Science and Technology"
• External Advisory Board, Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security, DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center, University of Texas
• DOE’s Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory User Executive Committee
• Geochemistry, Biogeochemisty, and Subsurface Science theme Advisory Panel (STAP), DOE Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL)
• Organizational committee, Gordon Research Conference
• Air Force Institute of Technology (AIT) Environmental Engineering Program Review Committee
• Secretary, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
• Board of Directors, AEESP Foundation
• Board of Directors, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
• Distinguished Service Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, 2005, 2009
• ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineer’s Editor Award for Service
• Associate Editor, ASCE, Journal of Environmental Engineering
• Associate Editor, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
• Participant by invitation to the National Academy of Engineering’s Fifth German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Washington DC
• Participant by invitation to the National Academy of Engineering’s Sixth Frontiers of Engineering program, San Diego, September
• Chi Epsilon Honorary Faculty Member