Meet the editor

Dr. Ivan Zhu has highly specialized expertise in biological wastewater treatment, membrane applications to industrial and municipal water and wastewater treatment, flocs and biofilm characterization in terms of microbial community distribution and extra-cellular polymeric substances, and membrane fouling characterization. He has applied his extensive knowledge of separation processes to the evaluation and design of water and

wastewater chemical/biological treatment processes. Previously, he worked at Xylem Water Solutions, where he gained extensive experience in drinking water treatment, wastewater tertiary treatment, denitrification, biologically active filtration, ozone-enhanced biofiltration, and dissolved air flotation. Presently, Dr. Zhu is working at Evoqua Water Technologies as a senior applications engineer for integrated industrial solutions for water and wastewater treatment. He has extensive experience in the treatment of industrial wastewater from refineries, power, mining, pulp and paper, food and beverage, and more. He holds a bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, and a master's and doctoral degree from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
