Professor Steven A. Banwart
Mine water pollution, nuclear waste, biodegradation, mineral surface chemistry
Professor of Environmental Engineering Science
Address:
GPRG
Kroto Research Institute
North Campus, University of Sheffield
Broad Lane
Sheffield
S3 7HQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)114 22 25742
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 5701
Room: G05
email : s.a.banwart@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
- MSc, Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
- PhD, Natural Environmental Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Steve graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1981 and a MSc in Environmental Engineering in 1983. He then moved to Europe attending the Von Karmen Institute for Fluid Dynamics for one year, then joining the research group of Prof Werner Stumm at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
He completed a PhD in Natural Environmental Science in 1989, and joined the Dept of Inorganic Chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He became research faculty in 1990, supported by The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co as scientific co-ordinator of an international research project on the geochemistry of nuclear waste disposal.
He moved to the UK in 1995 as a lecturer in Environmental Engineering, joined the department at University of Sheffield in 1998 and was promoted to Professor of Environmental Engineering Science in 2002. His portfolio of UK grants and contracts totals ~£3M in the areas of soil and groundwater chemistry and biodegradation science. He currently leads the development of a new £1.4M cross-faculty programme on Cell-Mineral Interface Research. He is co-author of a leading international textbook on mine water pollution and his research on nuclear waste (Nov 1997) and mine water pollution (April 2000) has featured in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, respectively as a cover article and as a research communication denoting novel results of exceptional significance.