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Dr. Charles J. Werth (Google Scholar profile) is a Professor & Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architecture, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the UT faculty in August of 2014, after spending 17 years on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Werth’s research and teaching focus on the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment, the development of innovative catalytic technologies for drinking water treatment, and the mitigation of environmental impacts associated with energy production and generation. Werth is currently on temporary assignment as a Program Director at the Department of Energy ARPA-E.
Werth’s past recognition includes service on the USEPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), and recognition as a fellow of the Association of Environmental Science and Engineering Professors (AEESP), as a Wiley Research Fellow at the Department of Energy’s Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, and as a Mercator Fellow of the German Research Society. He’s twice received an Editor’s Choice best paper award from Environmental Science and Technology, and once received a best paper award from ES&T Engineering. Werth also received a Humbolt Research Fellow Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Werth received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. minor in Chemistry from Stanford University.