WEST Welcomes New Faculty

Previously at Humboldt State University in California, Andrea Achilli jointed the WEST Center team in August 2017. Andrea Achilli is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Arizona (UA) and affiliated faculty at the UA Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center. His main fields of research are membrane processes for desalination and water reuse and energy recovery from water and wastewater. His research additionally focuses on process integration, modelling, and optimization and biological processes for water and wastewater treatments. Dr. Achilli is the PI or Co-PI on funded research projects for membrane contactor processes and hybrid systems for desalination and water reuse, including EPRI, CA DWR, EREF, and SERPD. He was the Vice-Chair of the AMTA/AWWA Membrane Technology Conference (MTC) Planning Committee in 2015 and Chair of the same committee in 2016.

To connect with Dr. Achilli, email him at achilli@email.arizona.edu.