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Education

• PhD, Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2014
• MSE, Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2009
• BS, Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2008

Interests

• Sustainable Water System Design and Implementation
• Resource Recovery from Waste
• Optimization within Stability Constraints and under Uncertainty
• Environmental Biotechnology and Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
• Sustainability-Based Decision Making

Professional Affiliations

• International Water Association
• Water Environment Federation
• American Water Works Association
• Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
• Order of the Engineer

Honors and Distinctions

• CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award 2022
• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2021-2026
• ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Bennett-Lindstedt Faculty Fellowship, 2018-2026
• ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ EVEN Faculty Appreciation Award (selected by B.S. students), 2019
• ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ CEAE Young Researcher Award, 2018
• Virginia Tech CEE Outstanding Young Alumni, 2018
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2009
• Virginia Tech College of Engineering Outstanding Senior, 2008
• Morris K. Udall Scholar, 2007, 2006

Latest Publications:

1. Peterson, E.; Summers, R.S.; Cook, S.M. . Environmental Science & Technology (2023). 

2. Chambers, K.G.; Sheridan, P.M.; Cook, S.M. Sanitation Criteria: . Environmental Science & Technology Letters (2022), 9, 7, 583–591. 

3. Bentley, M.; Solomon, M.E.; Marten, B.; Shimabuku, K.K.; Cook, S.M. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (2021), 7, 2064-2074. 

4. Chambers, K.G.; Carrico, A.; Cook, S.M. . Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (2021), 7, 1861-1872. 
5. Jones, C.H., Meyer, J., Cornejo, P.K., Hogrewe, W., Seidel, C.; Cook, S.M.  Science of the Total Environment (2019), 695, 133899.
6. Davis, A.L.; Javernick-Will, A.; Cook, S.M. Environmental Science & Technology (2019), 53 (1), 401-411.