• Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • A.P. & Florence Wiley Professor III
Shankar Chellam

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University
  • M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University
  • M.S. (Honors), Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
  • B.E. (Honors), Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science

Research Interests

    • Potable reuse and drinking water treatment
    • Produced water treatment
    • Membrane processes, including desalination
    • Electrocoagulation
    • Virus removal and inactivation
    • Trace metals in the atmosphere, including rare earths and platinum group metals
    • Long-range transport of North African (Sahara-Sahel) dust