Director, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Short biography
Janet Hering is the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) in Zürich and Lausanne. From 1996 to 2006, she was a Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prior to 1996, she was an Assistant and later Associate Professor at UCLA. She has degrees in chemistry from Cornell and Harvard Universities and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. Her research interests include water resources and water infrastructure management, the biogeochemistry of trace elements, and water treatment technologies for the removal of inorganic contaminants from potable water.
Download Prof. Hering’s CV here.
Additional material
Interview with Prof. Hering on the occasion of IRGC’s 10 year anniversary [pdf]