Eberhard F. Morgenroth

Associate Professor
Harold E. Babbitt Faculty Scholar

3219 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

Phone: (217) 333-6965

Fax: (217) 333-6968

Email: emorgenr@uiuc.edu

Research group website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/morgenroth

Eberhard Morgenroth holds a M.S. (University of California 1994), Dipl.-Ing. (Technical University of Harburg 1995), and Ph.D. (Technical University of Munich 1998), all in civil and environmental engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 2000. He also has a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Animal Sciences since 2000. Since 2001 he is a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Council.

Dr. Morgenroth has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in biological water and wastewater treatment, mathematical modeling of microbiological processes, and environmental biotechnology.

Dr. Morgenroth's research focuses on the influence of dynamic reactor operation on the performance of biological treatment processes. Specific areas of interest include the hydrolysis of particulate organic matter in biofilms, the influence of growth conditions and reactor operation on mass transport in biofilms, detachment processes in biofilm reactors, long term starvation of bacteria, dynamic response of bacteria to rapid changes of environmental conditions. Process application can range from municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, treatment of animal wastes, to biological air treatment. The goal of his research is to develop mechanistically based models, which allow for predictions of biological treatment processes under transient conditions.

Dr. Morgenroth is a member of the International Water Association, the Water Environment Federation, the American Society for Microbiology, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, and the Abwassertechnische Vereinigung. He serves as the chairman for the Environmental Engineering Education specialist group of the International Water Association. He also serves as an editor for the journals Water Research and Water Science & Technology.

In 2002 Dr. Morgenroth was the recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.