provides leadership and technical expertise on water-related projects based on

his extensive expertise in the field. He was educated at the Warsaw University

of Technology and the University of Toronto. For the past twenty six years he

has been a faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at

the University of California at Berkeley. His research and professional practice

is focused on sustainability metrics, water technology assessment, membrane

processes, biofilms, water and wastewater treatment.

Recently, he has been a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Sustainability at the

Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU) in Vienna where he spent a semester

conducting research and teaching a course on sustainability. He presented a

Fulbright public lecture “Will water be the ‘oil of the 21st century’?”.  More

information about his academic activities can be found on his Berkeley website.