Professor of Water & Resource Processing, University of Nottingham
SECTOR
Bioenergy, Hydropower
LOCATIONS
UK, EMEA and India
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Rachel is a passionate, global leader working on the multi-resource and environmental implications to the transition to circular economy and net zero, spanning analytics, technologies, and modelling. She has a particular focus on water quality and wastewater reuse for pollutant remediation and converting spent (waste) resources into useful products including energy (waste to wealth). Her expertise is particularly significant for future resource sustainability by understanding how water, chemical, energy resources including mismanaged (waste) resources that are consumed in our society can be more intelligently sourced and used, without depreciating the process environments from which they are derived. Rachel is a professor in chemical and environmental engineering, head of the Food Water Waste Research Group, and leads the University of Nottingham’s Water Works Interdisciplinary Research Cluster comprising over 140 academic researchers across the UK, Malaysia, and China campuses. She is one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability awarded by the Women’s Engineering Society for practice-led research on net zero and the UN SDGs (2020) and in 2022, was awarded an MBE for services to water research and to education in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Birthday Honours.
