Professional Experience
Chair of Excellence, Chemical Engineering Laboratory, Université Paul Sabbatier, Institut Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Institut Nationale Polytechnique Toulouse, France 2005-2006.
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, 1997-2006.
Director, Environmental and Energy Systems Institute, Rice University, 2001-2005.
Associate Dean of Engineering, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University, 1998 - 2001.
Visiting Professor and Research Scientist, Centre Nationale de la Rechereche Scientifique (CNRS), Environmental Geosciences Laboratory (CEREGE), University of Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1999-2000.
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1993 - 1997.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering
Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1988 - 1993.
Visiting Professor, Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft (Institute for Municipal Water Management), University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1991.
Principal Engineer, Senior Project Engineer, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., Environmental Engineers, Paramus, New Jersey, 1987-1988.
Research Scientist, Research Center, Lyonnaise des Eaux, Le Pecq, France, 1985 - 1987.
Lecturer, The Johns Hopkins University, 1984.
Research Assistant, The Johns Hopkins University, 1980 - 1984.
Water Quality Modeler, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Rockville, Maryland, 1981.
Research Assistant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1978 - 1980.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1978.
National Science Foundation Undergraduate Investigator, 1978.
J.J. Barr Award of the National Association of Water Companies, 1985.
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1989-1991.
Association of Environmental Engineering Professors AWWA invited lecturer, 1993.
Rudolph Hering Medal, Environmental Engineering Division, ASCE, 1995.
Charles Duncan Award for Scholarship and Teaching, Rice University, 1998.
North American Membrane Society, Student Research Award (Vladimir Tarabara), 2003.
AIChE Graduate Research Award for Membrane-Based Separations (Vladimir Tarabara), 2003.
Pierre de Fermat Laureate and Chair of Excellence, French National Polytechnic Institute, Toulouse, 2004
AEESP Frontiers in Research Award, 2004.
Honorary Professor, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2007.
Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award, 2009.
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009.