EM/ProfSaravanamuthu Vigneswaran
Emeritus Professor
School of Civil, Environmental & Sociotechnical ENG
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- Emeritus ProfessorSchool of Civil, Environmental & Sociotechnical ENG
BIO
Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UTS, is an award-winning researcher who has made a sustained and outstanding contribution to the water profession. He was Distinguished Professor from 2017 to Dec 2021 and Professor at UTS since 1996. He is a member of MIE Aust and holds CPEng NER APEC Engineer Int PE(Aus).
He is one of a handful of Australian academics whose work has been recognized by the International Water Association (IWA) as an IWA Distinguished Fellow (2021), for his long-term extraordinary contribution to the global water sector.
Saravanamuthu, who is a core member of UTS’s Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment, has worked on water industry issues in developing and developed countries since 1981.He was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Technologies in Water and Wastewater at UTS, from 2011 to 2018.
He has participated in IWA world and development congresses and has served as scientific committee member in membrane, water reuse, rainwater and solid liquid separation specialist group meetings.
Saravanamuthu’s research interests include sustainable water management, resource recovery, membrane technologies and hybrid systems for water reuse and desalination.
He has also investigated high-rate solid liquid separation technologies for package water treatment systems, advanced oxidation, photocatalysis, biofiltration for persistent organic removal, optimizing treatment systems and their operation, and appropriate water treatment in developing countries.
He taught undergraduate and postgraduate subjects on water and wastewater treatment and management, cleaner production or waste minimization and ecology and sustainability. He designed the first undergraduate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Master's degree in Environmental Engineering and Management.
His many awards include an IWA development award (runner-up and highly commended, 2019); IWA development congress best poster award (2019); Australian Water Association Kamal Fernando mentor award (2018); World's top 25 water researchers (2013); Google Impact Challenge Technology Against Poverty Prize Winner (2017); Life Member of International Water Academy; UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Leadership (2010); Chancellor's Exceptional Researcher (Highly Commended) (2011) and Research Supervision (2015); IWA Global Project Innovation Award in the Applied Research Category (Honour Award, 2012); IWA Asia Pacific Regional Project Innovation Award in the Applied Research Category (2012, 2010, 2008).
He has published more than 400 journal papers, and has an H index of 77 (Google scholar).
He is one of a handful of Australian academics whose work has been recognized by the International Water Association (IWA) as an IWA Distinguished Fellow (2021), for his long-term extraordinary contribution to the global water sector.
Saravanamuthu, who is a core member of UTS’s Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment, has worked on water industry issues in developing and developed countries since 1981.He was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Technologies in Water and Wastewater at UTS, from 2011 to 2018.
He has participated in IWA world and development congresses and has served as scientific committee member in membrane, water reuse, rainwater and solid liquid separation specialist group meetings.
Saravanamuthu’s research interests include sustainable water management, resource recovery, membrane technologies and hybrid systems for water reuse and desalination.
He has also investigated high-rate solid liquid separation technologies for package water treatment systems, advanced oxidation, photocatalysis, biofiltration for persistent organic removal, optimizing treatment systems and their operation, and appropriate water treatment in developing countries.
He taught undergraduate and postgraduate subjects on water and wastewater treatment and management, cleaner production or waste minimization and ecology and sustainability. He designed the first undergraduate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Master's degree in Environmental Engineering and Management.
His many awards include an IWA development award (runner-up and highly commended, 2019); IWA development congress best poster award (2019); Australian Water Association Kamal Fernando mentor award (2018); World's top 25 water researchers (2013); Google Impact Challenge Technology Against Poverty Prize Winner (2017); Life Member of International Water Academy; UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Leadership (2010); Chancellor's Exceptional Researcher (Highly Commended) (2011) and Research Supervision (2015); IWA Global Project Innovation Award in the Applied Research Category (Honour Award, 2012); IWA Asia Pacific Regional Project Innovation Award in the Applied Research Category (2012, 2010, 2008).
He has published more than 400 journal papers, and has an H index of 77 (Google scholar).
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS
- Distinguished Professor (2018 - present); Professor (1996 - present)University of Technology Sydney, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, Australia2 Jul 1990 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- DirectorCentre for Technology in water and wastewater (CTWW), Sydney, Australia2 Mar 2011 - 21 Dec 2018
DEGREES
- D.Eng and Dr.ScUniversity of Montpellier and University of Touluse, Montpellier, France
PROFILE TYPE
- Academic
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision