Professor Andrea Schäfer
Chair of Environmental Engineering
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Contact informationWilliam Rankine Building, Room 3.19 Phone: +44 (0) 131 650 7209 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- |
Senior Lecturer, Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia |
2001- |
Lecturer, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia |
2000- |
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 |


