Charles J. Werth

Associate Professor

3215 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

Phone: (217) 333-3822

Fax: (217) 333-6968

Email: werth@uiuc.edu

Personal website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/people/werth/

Charles J. Werth holds a B.S. (Texas A&M University, 1988) degree in mechanical engineering, and M.S. (Stanford University, 1992) and Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1996) degrees in environmental engineering and science. He also holds a Ph.D. minor (Stanford University, 1996) in Chemistry. Dr. Werth has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1997, and currently holds the rank of Assistant Professor.

Dr. Werth has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in hazardous waste site assessment, remediation and management, environmental transport modeling, and drinking water treatment processes.

Dr. Werth’s research focuses on the transport and fate organic chemicals in soils and sediments. Specific areas of interest include sorption mechanisms of organic chemicals on soils and sediments, dissolution and volatilization mechanisms of pure phase organic chemicals in porous media, and the influence of mass transfer on bioremediation.

Dr. Werth is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. He currently serves on the Groundwater Committee of the American Geophysical Union.

In 1998 Dr. Werth was a recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award. In 2000 he was named the Environmental Engineering and Science Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Werth has been listed four times on the incomplete list of teachers ranked excellent by their students.