Kartik Chandran, Professor, Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, presents this week's sustainability seminar.About Dr. ChandranDr. Kartik Chandran is an environmental engineer who primarily works on the interface between environmental molecular and microbiology, environmental biotechnology and environmental engineering. Applications of his work have ranged from energy and resource efficient treatment of nitrogen containing wastewater streams, development and implementation of sustainable approaches to sanitation to novel models for resource recovery. Under his stewardship, the directions of biological wastewater treatment and biological nutrient removal were established for the first ever time in the history of Columbia University.In 2015, he received the MacArthur Fellowship for his innovative work on "integrating microbial ecology, molecular biology, and engineering to transform wastewater from a troublesome pollutant to a valuable resource."Learn more about Dr. Chandran's work done in his lab.