Urs von Gunten

URS VON GUNTEN

born in Baden (Switzerland) on 20/10/1959

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Drinking water quality and water treatment. Unit processes and process combinations (adsorption processes, membrane processes, oxidation processes). Chemical oxidation and advanced oxidation processes: kinetics and mechanisms of formation of disinfection by-products and degradation of micropollutants. Assessment of toxicology of of transformation products. Biogeochemical processes in riverbank filtration systems. In situ and out-of-ground treatment of groundwaters

EDUCATION

Diploma Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Department of Chemistry,Switzerland, 1983

Ph.D.Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland, 1989.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher

2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher

2015 Recipient of the Harvey Rosen Award 2015 of the International Ozone Association

2015 Professorship under the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative for Distinguished Scientists

2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher

2013 Distinguished Lecturer for AEESP at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference, Denver, June 10, 2013

2012-to date Adjunct Professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

2011 Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

2010 Adjunct Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic

Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2010 Adjunct Professor at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth,

Australia

2007 Honorary Professorship at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin,

China

2007 Recipient of the Harvey Rosen Award 2007 of the International Ozone

Association

2007 Environmental Science and Technology Excellence in Review Award

2006 Professor title at ETHZ, Department of Environmental Sciences

2001 Recipient of the Harvey Rosen Award 2001 of the International Ozone

Association

1999 Recipient of the Marteen Schalekamp Award 1999 of the IWSA

1993 Recipient of a short-term fellowship of the Swiss National Science

Foundation in 1993 and 1994

1993 EERO short-term fellowship-holder

PROFESSIONAL RECORD

2013-2016 Head of transdisciplinary project “Regional Water Supply Basel Country 21”, Eawag

2010-2017 Head of Competence Center for Drinking Water, Eawag

2008/2009 Visiting Professor at the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre,

Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

2004-to date Deputy head of department ”Water Resources and Drinking Water”,

Eawag

2004-2008 Head of the cross-cutting project “Drinking water for the 21st

century”, Eawag

2000 – 2004 Head of department ”Water Resources and Drinking Water”, Eawag

2000/2001 Sabbatical at University of Colorado, Boulder

1998 - 1999 Head of department of Chemistry, Eawag

1995 - 2011 Lecturer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich,

Switzerland.

1995- to date Group leader of the drinking water group of the chemistry

department at Eawag

1994/93 Visiting Scientist at the International Research Center for

Water and Environment of Lyonnaise des Eaux (8 months),

CIRSEE, Le Pecq, France

since 1992 Research Scientist at Eawag

1989 - 1991 Postdoctoral Researcher at Eawag

1984 - 1989 Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

Zürich

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor “Environmental Science and Technology” (2010/2011)

Guest Editor “Water Research” for special issue on “Emerging

Contaminants” (2010)

Guest Editor „Journal of water supply: Research and

Technology-Aqua“ for a special issue on “Oxidation Processes” (2008)

Member of the editorial board of the journal ”Ozone: Science and Engineering”.

Member of the editorial board of „Journal of water supply: Research and Technology-Aqua“.

FORMER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2016 Co-organizer of PEAK seminar ”Neue Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze in der Wasserversorgung – Fallbeispiele aus dem Kanton BL”. Dübendorf, November 11, 2016

2015 Organizer of PEAK seminar “Micropollutants in drinking water”, Dübendorf, October 30

2014 Co-organizer of the Eawag Infotag “Wasserversorgung und Uferfiltration – ein System unter Druck?” Dübendorf, September 9, 2014

2014 Co-organizer of a Symposium “Advanced oxidation processes for water treatment” 5th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress 2014, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014

2013 Co-Organizer of PEAK seminar on “Oxidation and Disinfection Processes”, Aug. 30, Dübendorf

2013 Co-Organizer of the Micropoll & Ecohazard Conference, Zürich, June 17-19, 2013

2013 Co-Organizer of the session “Advanced Oxidation – Technologies and Applications, Leading Edge Technology (LET) Conference, Bordeaux, June 2-6, 2013

2011 Co-Organizer of Korean-Swiss Science Days in Zürich “Water for the Future”, ETHZ, November 9-10, 2011.

2010 Co-Organizer of an international symposium “Oxidation processes in natural and technical aquatic systems” in honour of Jürg Hoigné’s 80 birthday, Eawag, May 21, 2010.

2010 Co-Organizer of 23. Mülheimer Wassertechnisches Seminar “Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von oxidativen Prozessen in der Wasserreinhaltung”, March 11, 2010, IWW, Mülheim an der Ruhr

2008 Co-Organizer of the Eawag Infotag 2008 “Vom Gewässer ins Glas”, Sept. 12, 2008, Eawag, Dübendorf

2008 Organizing committee of Leading Edge Technology Conference (LET), Zürich, June 1-4, 2008.

2008 Co-organizer of Sino-Swiss workshop “Water Resources Management and Drinking Water Quality”, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, January, 2008

2007 Organizer of Wave21 seminar on “New insights in the field of drinking water treatment”, Dübendorf, Sept. 14, 2007.

2007 Co-organizer of a symposium entitled “Sustainability in Water Supply: Advances in Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment” at ACS Spring conference, Chicago, March 25-29, 2007.

2006 Organizer of Wave21 seminar on “New developments of analytical methods for drinking water analysis”, Dübendorf, Sept. 15, 2006,

2005 Organizer of Wave21 seminar on “New applications of ozone in water treatment”, Sept. 23, 2005, Dübendorf

1999 Co-organizer of 200th Anniversary Symposium in honor of Ch. F. Schönbein - the discoverer of ozone, October 1999, Basel.

1995 Organizer of a symposium in honor of J. Hoigné, June, 1995, Dübendorf, Switzerland

1991 Co-organizer of the workshop "Chemodynamics of Groundwaters", November, 1991, Mont Sainte-Odile, France