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Location 200 College Street Wallberg Building Room 116 |
DAVID SEDLAK is the Malozemoff Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Water Center and Deputy Director of the NSF engineering research center for Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). Professor Sedlak's research addresses the use of natural and engineered systems to improve water quality and new approaches for increasing the sustainability and resiliency of urban water systems.
Much of Dr. Sedlak's current research addresses the fate and transport of organic contaminants in wastewater-impacted waters. This research has included investigations of the fate of steroid hormones in surface waters, control of the formation of the potent carcinogen NDMA in advanced water recycling facilities and the transformation of pharmaceuticals in effluent-dominated surface waters and engineered treatment wetlands.
Sedlak is a recipient of numerous awards including the NSF CAREER Award, the Paul Busch Award for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research and the Clarke Prize for Excellence in Water Research. He is editor-in-chief of the American Chemical Society journal, Environmental Science & Technology. Sedlak is also author of the award-winning book Water 4.0: The Past, Present and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource.
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