Faculty
The Water Resource Center at WPI is made up of a wide range of experts who take an interdisciplinary approach to serving the needs of the state, nation, and globe.
Engineering
- John Bergendahl (Civil & Environmental Engineering): drinking water treatment, municipal and industrial wastewater treatment
- Terri Camesano (Chemical Engineering): Water bacteriology, environmental engineering
- Abigail Charest (Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD candidate): Water resources management planning
- Aaron Deskins (Chemical Engineering): computational chemistry applied to organics adsorption and oxidation reactions
- Nikolaos Kazantzis (Chemical Engineering): techno-economic performance assessment of environmental and energy technology systems, risk analysis, process safety
- Paul Mathisen (Civil & Environmental Engineering): contaminant transport modeling, water resources management, stormwater management
- Aaron Sakulich (Civil and Environmental Engineering): Sustainable materials, appropriate technology
- Nima Rahbar (Civil and Environmental Engineering): Sustainable and bio-inspired materials
Science
- Drew Brodeur (Chemistry & Biochemistry): Detection and removal of Triclosan
- Shawn Burdette (Chemistry & Biochemistry): Detection of metal pollutants/sensor development
- Luca Capogna (Mathematical Sciences): Mathematical modeling
- Germano Iannacchione (Physics): New sensor technology for pollutants
- Chris Lambert (Chemistry & Biochemistry): Cold flame technology, remediation of unsaturated hydrocarbons
- Reeta Prusty Rao (Biology & Biotechnology): Identification of microbial contaminants
- Burt S. Tilley (Mathematical Sciences): Mathematical modeling, computational modeling
- Vadim Yakovlev (Mathematical Sciences): Multiphysics modeling
Policy
- Laureen Elgert (Social Science & Policy Studies): Environment and development, sustainable development, politics and environment
- Isa Bar-On (Mechanical Engineering): Policy level systems modeling, health care
- Corey Denenberg Dehner (Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division): Storm water, drinking water, environmental justice and dam removal policies
- Scott Jiusto (Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division): Sustainability, water sanitation and management
- Robert Krueger (Social Science & Policy Studies): Urban sustainability, comparative policy analysis and environmental justice
- Christopher Scarpino (Mechanical Engineering): Policy
- Khalid Saeed (Social Science & Policy Studies): Policy system dynamics
- Andrew Trapp (School of Business): Biomedicine and Health Care, sustainability and environment