People

Faculty

Christopher Higgins

Director, AMAX Distinguished Chair, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Movement of contaminants in the environment
• Chemical fate and transport in natural and engineered systems
• Focus on poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)

Timothy Strathmann

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Development of technologies that employ innovative catalytic, hydrothermal, and photochemical processes to treat highly reclacitrant per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), produce bio-renewable energy and chemicals, and recover valuable resources from waste streams

James Ranville

Professor, Chemistry

• Role of colloids and particles in environmental processes
• Development and application of size separation methods
• Isolation and characterization of natural organic matter
• Characterization and ecotoxicology of engineered nanoparticles

Jonathan “Josh” Sharp

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Design of water treatment infrastructure and understand the interplay of biogeochemical processes on water quality in both engineered and natural systems