Professor Andrea Schäfer
Chair of Environmental Engineering

Professor Andrea Schäfer

Contact information

William Rankine Building, Room 3.19
The University of Edinburgh
The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road
Edinburgh, UK
EH9 3JL

Phone: +44 (0) 131 650 7209
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6554

Email: andrea.schaefer@ed.ac.uk

Academic qualifications

2000

PhD Chemical Engineering 'Natural Organics Removal using Membranes' UNSW, Sydney, Australia

2006

Graduate Certificate University Learning and Teaching UNSW, Sydney, Australia

1995

D.E.A. Process Engineering ESIGEC, Uni Savoie, France

1995

MEng (eq) Environmental Engineering ESIGEC, Uni Savoie, Chambery, France

1993

Dipl.-Ing.(FH) PhysicsEngineering FH Heilbronn, Germany

Awards

2005

Mondialogo Award (UNESCO/DaimlerChrysler Partnership)

2003

Energy Globe 2nd Prize Category Water

Previous positions

2002-
2006

Senior Lecturer, Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia

2001-
2002

Lecturer, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

2000-
2001

Senior Research Associate & Project Manager CWWT, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

1995

Research Assistant, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, FhG/IGB, Stuttgart, Germany

1994

Industrial Research Limited (IRL), Wellington, New Zealand

1993

Dürr GmbH, Process Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany

1992

ESKOM (Electricity Supply Commission), Johannesburg, South Africa

1989

Berghof GmbH Process Engineering, Eningen, Germany

2006

Visiting Academic EAWAG (ETH) Dübendorf (Zürich), Switzerland