Poster #68 - George Wells

Cairo University, Egypt

Biography

George Wells is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, where he directs the Environmental Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology Laboratory. His primary research interests are microbial nitrogen and phosphorus cycling and shortcut biological nutrient removal processes, resource and energy recovery from wastewater, microbial ecology of engineered and impacted natural systems, sustainable biological wastewater treatment, and microbial greenhouse gas production. George received his BSc in chemical engineering and BA in environmental engineering from Rice University in 2004. After a short period working at BP Chemicals in Naperville, Illinois, George joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he completed his MSc (2006) and PhD (2011) under Dr. Craig Criddle and Dr. Chris Francis. Prior to joining Northwestern University in the fall of 2013, George spent nearly 2.5 years as a postdoctoral scholar under Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth at Eawag- the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (near Zürich, Switzerland).