Environmental Engineering Research

Opportunities are available in these and other areas:

  • Physicochemical processes for water and wastewater treatment
  • Chemical and environmental multiphase transport processes
  • Multimedia (air, water/groundwater) environmental simulations
  • Environmental and aquatic chemistry
  • Analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy
  • Ecology and physiology of microorganisms involved in degradation processes
  • Environmental biotechnology for bioremediation of contaminated soil, sediments & waters
  • Green chemistry and biochemistry
  • Evolution and adaptation of microbial communities
  • Sustainable technology and development
  • Physical, chemical, and biological processes influencing subsurface fate and transport of contaminants
  • Hazardous substances in sediments, soils, waters and residues
  • Air pollution: formation, transport, and disposition of aerosols
  • Characterization of ambient air quality and air pollutant source emissions
  • Combustion byproduct formation
  • Atmospheric dynamics of air and contaminant dispersion
  • Atmospheric and oceanic dynamics
  • Nanotechnology in the environment
  • Carbon sequestration