Profile

Eberhard Morgenroth

• Partner Investigator
• Eawag (Swiss Federal Authority, ETH Zurich)

Professor Eberhard Morgenroth holds an MS (University of California 1994), Dipl.-Ing. (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg 1995), and PhD (Technical University of Munich 1998), all in civil and environmental engineering. After two years of postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000 to 2009). Since 2009 he is a Professor for Process Engineering in Urban Water Management with appointments at ETH Zürich and at Eawag. At Eawag he is head of the Process Engineering Department. His research interests include wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for water reuse, control of biofilms, biofilm reactors, decentralized wastewater treatment, and energy recovery from wastewater and organic residuals.

His research interests include the following themes:

• Membranes and membrane bioreactors for water reuse: Mechanisms of soluble EPS production, aggregate structure of flocs and granules in MBR, biofilm formation and structure on membrane, combination of biological treatment with sorptive media, energy recovery in MBR.
• Control of biofilms and biofilm reactors: Monitoring biofilm development in-situ in reactors and distribution systems, process development, mathematical modelling for the practitioner.
• Decentralized water and wastewater treatment: Process development, monitoring and control, social and economic aspects.
• Mathematical modelling of biological wastewater treatment processes: Practice oriented modelling of wastewater treatment processes for process understanding, design, and control.