Keynote Speakers

Date: Sunday - October 10, 2010
Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Dr. Gary L. Amy

Director, Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center

Dr. Gary L. Amy assumed the positions of Director of the Water Desalination Research Center and Professor of Environmental Engineering at KAUST in June 2009.

Dr. Amy is presently Professor of Water Supply engineering at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He has formerly served as a Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at the University of Arizona in the United States.

Dr. Amy's main areas of research interest are drinking water treatment and wastewater reclamation/reuse, with specific expertise in membrane rejection and fouling, selective adsorption, natural organic matter characterization, disinfection by-product formation and control, and natural systems. At UNESCO-IHE, he has been involved in various European Union and other sponsored projects on membrane-based desalination, membrane bioreactors, natural drinking water and wastewater treatment processes, and organic and inorganic micropollutants. During his career of almost 30 years, Dr. Amy has published more than 200 articles in refereed publications and supervised almost 40 doctoral students.

Dr. Amy is a member of the International Water Association (IWA) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He serves on the editorial boards of Water Science and Technology (IWA), International Ozone Association (IOA), and the Journal of Drinking Water Engineering and Science. He has received best paper awards from the Journal AWWA and the Journal of the Water Environment Federation. Dr. Amy was also the recipient of a Fulbright Award for Germany, 2003-2004, and was invited as Distinguished Lecturer for the Korea Brain 21 Program, 2002. Several of his doctoral students have been honored with best dissertation awards from the AWWA and the IOA.

Professor Amy received his doctorate degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. While American by birth, he considers himself to be a global citizen and has spent sabbaticals in France, Germany, and Japan.