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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 Water Young Investigator Award is Dr. Case van Genuchten.
Dr. Case van Genuchten is a researcher in the Geochemistry Department of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. He is passionate about developing drinking water treatment technologies for areas lacking resources and infrastructure. In particular, he has spent recent years designing, implementing, and field testing arsenic removal technologies in rural arsenicaffected communities in South Asia. Dr. Case van Genuchten’s unique research integrates laboratory experiments and rigorous field-testing with sophisticated synchrotron-based characterization techniques to determine the chemical reactions that underpin the efficiency of water treatment technologies. He is inspired by new research in the fields of development engineering and humanitarian engineering, which are interdisciplinary fields that combine technology design, social science, and business studies. He was honored to receive the 2020 Water Young Investigator Award and pledges to continue to push his work in technology development for resource-scarce communities in the future. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Case van Genuchten for his outstanding achievements.
As the awardee, Dr. Case van Genuchten will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Water, and an engraved plaque.
We would like to thank all the applicants in various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the many excellent applications.
The competition for the 2021 Water Young Investigator Award will be open from September 2020. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/awards for more information closer to that date.
Water 2020 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Jing Sun
College of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tongji University, China
Details
Vhahangwele Masindi
Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Dr. ATHANASIOS LOUKAS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Prof. Martin Thoms
University of New England
Dr. Tao Zhang
China Agricultural University
Winner
Li Gao
Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Australia
Details
Zhe Yang
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, China
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Dr. Bommanna Krishnappan
Dr. Julie Kinzelman
University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Dr. Letizia Lusito
Inside Climate Service
Dr. David Dunkerley
Dr. Achim A. Beylich
Geomorphological Field Laboratory (GFL)
Winner
Sergi Garcia-Segura
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, USA
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Dr. Christos Akratos
Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace
Dr. Thomas Meixner
University of Arizona
Prof. Peiyue Li
School of Water and Environment, Chang'an University
Winner
Stefanos Giannakis
Department of Hydraulics, Energy and Environment, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Adriano A. Bordalo
ICBAS-University of Porto
Prof. Helena RAMOS
IST
Dr. Steve Pueppke
Michigan State University
Prof. Dr. ATHANASIOS LOUKAS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Winner
Case van Genuchten
Geochemistry Department, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Slobodan Simonovic
Prof. Dr. Marcel J.F. Stive
Delft University of Technology
Prof. Maria Filomena Camões
Faculdade de Ciencias Universidade de Lisboa
Dr. Kevin Strychar
Winner
Kyle Frankel Davis
Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware, USA
Details
