Treatment, infrastructure, quality, contaminants, drinking water, wastewater, grey water, technology, microbial
Aging water infrastructure, coupled with the threat of emerging contaminants like PFAS, directly affects the safety and quality of water for human use. Investing in robust and well-maintained infrastructure, innovative treatment technologies and supportive ‘soft’ infrastructure (e.g., institutions and governance systems) is essential for ensuring safe and clean water for communities and protecting public health and the environment.

Morteza Abbaszadegan
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480/965-3868
- ISTB4 373
Abbaszadegan’s work focuses on contemporary water quality issues concerning health-related water microbiology. He is director of the WET Center at ASU and a professor of environmental microbiology and engineering.
Absar Alum
Research Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480/727-2962
- ISTB4 336
Alum’s areas of expertise include health related environmental microbiology, microbial pathogen survival and detection and endocrine disrupting chemicals in water.
Jirapat Ananpattarachai
Research Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Jirapat Ananpattarachai is an assistant research professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment (SSEBE) at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, (Thailand), followed by a master’s degree in Environmental Management from the Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). She received her doctorate in Environmental Engineering from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand). After completing her doctorate, she works as a lecturer in the Environmental Engineer’s program at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Naresuan University, Thailand, before joining ASU in Oct 2021. Previously, her…
Samuel Ariaratnam
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480/965-7399
- CAVC 480 660 S. College Avenue
Ariaratnam’s expertise includes sustainable urban underground infrastructure systems, trenchless engineering and construction methods, underground asset management and performance modeling.
Treavor Boyer
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Boyer’s research focuses on drinking water and wastewater treatment, urine source separation, nutrient management and resource recovery. Undergraduate/Graduate Program Chair for Environmental Engineering.
Sergio Garcia Segura
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Garcia-Segura’s expertise includes electrochemical water treatment.
Rolf Halden
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480/727-0893
- ASU Biodesign Institute 1001 S. McAllister Avenue Room B240C
Halden’s research interests are public health engineering, sustainable cities, urban water cycle, green chemistry and engineering, urban metabolism and exposure assessment.
Kerry Hamilton
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- Biodesign B240A 1001
Hamilton’s research focuses on risk assessment, decision analysis, environmental microbiology, and modeling and data analysis.
Kiril Hristovski
Associate Professor
Environmental and Resource Management, The Polytechnic School
- 480/727-1291
- PRLTA 330A
Hristovski received the Presidential Academic Award, presented by former U.S. President George Bush, Sr. (1991) and the Presidential Medal of Merit, presented by the president of the Republic of Macedonia (2016).
John McGowen
Portfolio Manager (Research)
Research Project Management
- 480/727-1472
- 7418 E. Innovation Way South ISTB3, rm 103
Amin MOJIRI
Research Assistant Professor
Water Institute
Amin Mojiri earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Science Malaysia in 2015. Before joining Arizona State University in 2024, he served as an Assistant Professor at Hiroshima University in Japan. Amin has had a distinguished academic career, publishing over 100 papers in prestigious international journals. His expertise is recognized widely, with roles as an associate editor and editorial board member for leading publishers like Elsevier, MDPI, and Frontiers. Amin has been honored with several international awards, including the prestigious JSPS fellowship. His research primarily focuses on water and wastewater treatment, water quality, emerging contaminants, and Atmospheric…
Larry Olson
Global Futures Scientists and Scholars
- 602/743-9751
- Peralta 335Q
Olson’s research focuses on the environmental and health aspects of hazardous chemicals, including nanoscale materials. His expertise includes environmental chemistry, water resources management, and international environment
Ellen Stechel
Deputy Director and Professor of Practice
LightWorks
- PO Box 878204 ASU LightWorks 77 E University Drive
Kong-Thon Tsen
Professor
Department of Physics
- PSF 433
Professor Tsen’s research group focuses on the interaction of light with solid state and biological systems, in particular on the use of ultrafast laser sources to elucidate novel electron transport phenomena.
Paul Westerhoff
Regents’ Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- 480/965-2885
- ISTB4 – Room 395D
Westerhoff’s research focuses on environmental geochemistry; food, water, and energy nexus; drinking water treatment and water quality.