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    Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

    The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ  85721

    Phone:  (520) 626-2896, Fax:  (520) 621-6048

    E-mail:  rsierra@email.arizona.edu

    Educational Background:

    1990    Ph.D.     Environmental Techology, Wageningen University,

                                The Netherlands

    1985    MSCE    University of Valladolid, Spain

    1984    BS          Chemistry, University of Valladolid, Spain

     

    Professional Experience: 

     

    2004-Present    Associate Professor

    Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

    The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

     

    2001-2004         Research Associate Professor 

    Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

    The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

     

    2003-2005        Visiting Associate Professor (Summer Sessions)

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

     

    1993-2000        Associate Professor

    Department of Environmental Sciences

    Laboratory of Forest Products

    Wageningen University, The Netherlands

     

    1992-1993       Coordinator of International Course

    on Advanced Environmental Sanitation for Central & Eastern Europe

    Technical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

     

    1991-1993       Assistant Professor

    Department of Environmental Engineering, UNESCO-IHE

    Delft, The Netherlands

     

    1990-1991       Postdoctoral Fellow

    Department of Chemical Engineering

    Autonomous University, Barcelona, Spain

     

    1986-1990       PhD Research Fellow

    Department of Environmental Technology

    Wageningen University, The Netherlands

     

     

    Professional Service: 

    • Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation/Semiconductor Research Corporation (NSF/SRC) Engineering Research Center for Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing (2002-Present)
    • Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Water Quality Center (WQC) (2003-Present)
    • Member of the American Society for Engineering Education
    • Member of the International Water Association
    • Member of the American Society of Microbiology
    • Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

     

    Honors and Awards:  

    • NSF Advance Fellows Award (2002-2005)
    • Editor's Award, ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering (2002)
    • Co-recipient of the 2001 Lettinga Award (In recognition of work on anaerobic biodegradation and dissemination of information on anaerobic technology.)  Prize presented on September 6, 2001 at the Ninth World Conference:  Anaerobic Digestion 2001, Antwerp, Belgium
    • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (1990-1991)
    • PhD Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (1986-1988)
    • Fellow, Dutch Government NUFFIC Scholarship (1989)
    • Fellow, International Agricultural Center, Wageningen National Scholarship Foundation (1989)

    Publications: 

     

    Please see publications page.