Jeremy S. Guest

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Champaign, Illinois, United States

Biography

Dr. Jeremy Guest is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign (UIUC). His research focuses on the development of technologies for sustainable water and sanitation, with a focus on resource recovery from bodily excreta in technologically advanced and developing communities. Dr. Guest is engaged with several major initiatives at UIUC, where he serves as the Environmental Sustainability Lead for the Soybean Innovation Lab funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Sustainable Design Lead for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Guest is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, the 2016 recipient of the Paul L. Busch Award for innovation in applied water quality research from the Water Research Foundation (WRF), and a Beckman Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC. His research has been sponsored by a number of agencies including the NSF, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. DOE, the USAID, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Guest’s formal training includes a BSc and MSc in civil engineering from Bucknell University and Virginia Tech, respectively, and a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan.