Mark van Loosdrecht Awarded Spinoza Prize 2014
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
We would like to congratulateWater ResearchEditor-in-Chief Mark van Loosdrecht on the news that he has been awarded theNetherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science.
TheSpinoza Prizewas established in 1995 in order to increase the visibility of the top researchers working in the Netherlands. The Spinoza laureate receives €2.5 million to further their research.
The NWO Spinoza Prizes will be presented in a special ceremony in The Hague on 9 September 2014 during which laureates will receive their prize money and present their research and plans for the coming years.
Mark has been recognized for his work in environmental technology, which includes:
Research into biofilms - a layer of microorganisms surrounded by their own slime that is attached to a surface - and storage compounds of microorganisms, which was the start of a new research area
Inventing the aerobic granular sludge technology (commercially known as the Nereda technology) aimed at controlling growth and formation of microbial communities in granular sludge. The Nereda technology has been designated as an important new Dutch innovation and is starting to make a broad international breakthrough
Development of the Anammox technology which helps to purify polluted water by converting harmful ammonium together with nitrite into the harmless substances nitrogen gas and water
Collaborating with industry to implement his research into practice
Mark is Professor of Environmental Technology atDelft University of Technology.
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