Pedro J. J. Alvarez

Pedro J.J. Alvarez is the George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University[1], where he also serves as founding Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT)[2] and as Director of the Rice WaTER Institute[3].

Alvarez also serves on the board of directors of the Houston Endowment Inc[4]., which is a private foundation to improve quality of life for the residents of greater Houston. His research interests include environmental implications and applications of nanotechnology, bioremediation, fate and transport of toxic chemicals, water footprint of biofuels, water treatment and reuse, and antibiotic resistance control. Professor Alvarez received the B. Eng. Degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is the 2012 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize[5] laureate for outstanding research in water science and technology, and also won the AAEES Grand Prize for Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science.

Career

Alvarez has served on the EPA’s Science Advisory Board[6] and the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee,[7] and is an Executive Editor of Environmental Science and Technology.

Alvarez is an honorary professor at Nankai University, Zheijang University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, and adjunct professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil.[8][9]

Award and honors

References

  1. ^ "Pedro Alvarez". alvarez.rice.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  2. ^ "NSF".
  3. ^ "Rice WaTER Institute".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Houston Endowment".
  5. ^ "Past Clarke Prize Laureates | National Water Research Institute". Mysite. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  6. ^ EPA’s Science Advisory Board
  7. ^ National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee
  8. ^ "Pedro J. J. Alvarez". rice.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  9. ^ "Pedro J. J. Alvarez". Retrieved April 11, 2017. [verification needed]
  10. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
  11. ^ Zhang, Tong; Lowry, Gregory V.; Capiro, Natalie L.; Chen, Jianmin; Chen, Wei; Chen, Yongsheng; Dionysiou, Dionysios D.; Elliott, Daniel W.; Ghoshal, Subhasis; Hofmann, Thilo; Hsu-Kim, Heileen; Hughes, Joseph; Jiang, Chuanjia; Jiang, Guibin; Jing, Chuanyong (2019). "In situ remediation of subsurface contamination: opportunities and challenges for nanotechnology and advanced materials". Environmental Science: Nano. 6 (5): 1283–1302. doi:10.1039/C9EN00143C. ISSN 2051-8153.
  12. ^ Yu, Pingfeng; Wang, Zijian; Marcos-Hernandez, Mariana; Zuo, Pengxiao; Zhang, Danning; Powell, Camilah; Pan, Aaron Y.; Villagrán, Dino; Wong, Michael S.; Alvarez, Pedro J. J. (2019). "Bottom-up biofilm eradication using bacteriophage-loaded magnetic nanocomposites: a computational and experimental study". Environmental Science: Nano. 6 (12): 3539–3550. doi:10.1039/C9EN00827F. ISSN 2051-8153.
  13. ^ Loeb, Stephanie K.; Alvarez, Pedro J. J.; Brame, Jonathon A.; Cates, Ezra L.; Choi, Wonyong; Crittenden, John; Dionysiou, Dionysios D.; Li, Qilin; Li-Puma, Gianluca; Quan, Xie; Sedlak, David L.; David Waite, T.; Westerhoff, Paul; Kim, Jae-Hong (2019-03-19). "The Technology Horizon for Photocatalytic Water Treatment: Sunrise or Sunset?". Environmental Science & Technology. 53 (6): 2937–2947. doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b05041. ISSN 0013-936X.