University Academic Fellow in Advanced Water/Wastewater Treatment

Conventional water and wastewater treatment processes have remained largely unchanged during the last 100 years.  In the developed world they are based around large footprint filtration systems with resource intensive and increasingly centralised systems serving expanding city populations and increasing challenges with energy, maintenance operational aspects.  Advanced water and wastewater treatment has the potential to disrupt and unlock these conventional approaches to develop more sustainable approaches.  From re-defining the centralised and flow-sheet approaches, to the development of new low/zero energy or chemical treatment processes, such technologies offer solutions to both the developed world, and also opportunity in the rapidly expanding urban areas of the developing world.

You will be based in the Institute of Public Health and Environmental Engineering (IPHEE) where you will build upon the significant legacy of the School in water/wastewater treatment and complement existing activity on sustainable treatment systems, resource recovery and sustainable urban drainage.  You will have significant connections to water@leeds and will also engage with researchers across the University through the Energy and Cities themes.  You will have expertise in water and/or wastewater that enhances and complements the Schools research activity.  You will also contribute to teaching in these areas on undergraduate and MSc programmes.