Employment
| Since 03/2014 | PROFESSOR, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Head of Membrane Technology Department, Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG) Professor of Water Process Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering |
| 03/13-02/14 | PROFESSOR, School of Materials, Energy, Water & Environmental Sciences (MEWES), Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania |
| 10/12-03/13 | SABBATICAL – VISITING ACADEMIC Dept of Water Resources Engineering, CoET, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| 03/06-02/13 | CHAIR PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 2007 | INVITED VISITING PROFESSOR |
| (2 months) | Departement des Procédés Propres et Environnement, University Aix-Marseilles, France |
| 2006 | SABBATICAL- VISITING ACADEMIC |
| (5 months) | Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, ETH-EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 10/02-02/06 | SENIOR LECTURER, Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia |
| 02/01-10/02 | LECTURER, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 02/00-01/01 | SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & PROJECT MANAGER, Centre for Water and Waste Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. |
| 1995 | RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (FhG/IGB), Stuttgart, Germany |
Education
| 1996-1999 | PhD CHEMICAL ENGINEERING “REMOVAL OF NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER USING MEMBRANES” |
| (awarded 04/2000) | University of NSW, UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering, Sydney, Australia & Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment (CRC WQ&T) |
| 2002-2006 | GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN UNIVERSITY LEARNING AND TEACHING (ULT) Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia |
| 1994-1995 | PROCESS ENGINEERING (D.E.A., equivalent PhD prep.) Savoie University, ESIGEC, Chambéry, France. |
| 1993-1995 | ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (equivalent Masters, Ingénieur ESIGEC) Savoie University, ESIGEC, Chambéry, France |
| 1989-1993 | PHYSICS ENGINEERING (MAJOR PROCESS ENGINEERING) (equivalent Honours, Dipl.-Ing. (FH)); Fachhochschule Heilbronn, Germany. |
Awards & Prizes
| 2007 | Mondialogo – DaimlerCrysler & UNESCO Award (€5k value) |
| 2005 | Mondialogo – DaimlerCrysler & UNESCO Award (selected from 217 projects – US$18k value) |
| 2003 | Energy Globe Award – 2nd Prize Category Water (selected from 1000 projects from 95 countries) |
| 1998-1999 | CRC Water Quality & Treatment, Full PhD Scholarship |
| 1997-1999 | Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship (OPRS) |
| 1996-1998 | DAAD Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Council), Germany |
| 1994-1995 | ERASMUS Scholarship |
| 1996 | Australian-European Awards Program Scholarship 1996 (not accepted) |
| 1996-2001 | Poster Prizes (IMSTEC ’96, EERE ’99, EERE’01) & Student Contest Winner (ICOM ’99) |
