By appointment (please email)
Slav W. Hermanowicz is a Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley. Hermanowicz’s research focuses on membrane reactors, biofilm structure and modeling, biological processes in water and wastewater treatment, and analysis of full-scale treatment processes. He is also working on metrics of sustainable development with particular applications for engineering decision-making and water reuse. Hermanowicz has been involved in many international projects, including serving as a program honorary visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai in 2013 and a Visiting Fellow for the Institute of Advanced Study for the Technical University of Munich in 2013, among other notable accomplishments.
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, 1982
M.Sc., Environmental Engineering, Warsaw Technical University, Poland, 1978
Hermanowicz’s research focuses on sustainability engineering, membrane reactors, biofilm structure and modeling, biological processes in water and wastewater treatment, and analysis of full-scale treatment processes. He is also working on metrics of sustainable development with particular applications for engineering decision-making and water reuse. His other research interests include complexity, chaotic dynamics, and fractal geometry with applications to engineering, science, and business.
- Shanghai Thousand Talent Expert, 2017
- 111 Program Honorary Visiting Professor - Tongji University, Shanghai, 2013
- Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, 2013
- National High-End Foreign Expert of China – 2013
- Distinguished Fellow, Collegium of Eminent Scientists, Kosciuszko Foundation
- Minner Faculty Fellow 2012, University of California, Berkeley
- Distinguished Guest Professor 2010 - University of Natural Resources and Applied LifeSciences (BOKU), Vienna
- Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Sustainability, 2008 - University of Natural Resources andApplied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna
- Member, Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability, European Academy of Sciences andArts (EASA) Member
- Research Achievements Award, 2006 - SF Bay California Water Environment Association
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2005 - Universitat de Girona, Spain
See my website http://faculty.ce.berkeley.edu/hermanowicz/
Recent Publications
Journal Papers
- Liu P., Hermanowicz, S.W., Huang Y. (2021). "Shifting entrepreneurial landscape and development performance of water startups in emerging water markets." PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246282
- Yao, M., L. Duan, Y. Song and S. W. Hermanowicz (2020). "Degradation Mechanism of Ibuprofen via a Forward Osmosis Membrane Bioreactor." Bioresource Technology: 124448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124448.
- Yao, M., L. Duan, J. Wei, F. Qian and S. W. Hermanowicz (2020). Carbamazepine Removal from Wastewater and the Degradation Mechanism in a Submerged Forward Osmotic Membrane Bioreactor. Bioresource Technology: 123732. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123732
- Wu, G., Yin, Q., Gu, M., Hermanowicz, S.W., Hu, H-Y. (2020). Potential interactions between syntrophic bacteria and methanogens via type IV pili and quorum-sensing systems. Environment International, 138, 105650 doi:10.1016/j.envint.2020.105650
- Yang, Y., Li, Y., Gu, Z., Lua, F., Xia, S., Hermanowicz, S. (2019). Quick start-up and stable operation of a one-stage deammonification reactor with a low quantity of AOB and ANAMMOX biomass. Science of the Total Environment. 654, 933-941 doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.069
- Gu, Z., Li, Y., Yang, Y., Xia, S., Hermanowicz, S.W., Alvarez-Cohen, L. (2018). Inhibition of Anammox by Sludge Thermal Hydrolysis and Metagenomic Insights. Bioresource Technology, 270, 46-54 doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2018.08.132