Janet Hering#
| Membership Number: | 5720 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.eawag.ch/en/aboutus/portrait/organisation/staff/profile/janet-hering/show/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0865-1946 |
| Twitter: | @JanetGHering |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2023 Director Emerita, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
- Since 2023 Professor Emerita, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ)
- Since 2023 Professor Emerita, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
- 2007 - 2022 Director, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
- 2010 - 2022 Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
- 2007 - 2022 Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ)
- 1996 - 2011 Professor (after 2009 Visiting Associate), California Institute of Technology
- 1991 - 1999 Asst (to 1995)/Assoc Professor (after 1997 Adjunct), University of California Los Angeles
- 1988 - 1991 Research Fellow, Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG), Duebendorf, Switzerland
- 1982 - 1988 Research/Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- 1979 - 1981 Research/Teaching Assistant, Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Water treatment technologies for the removal of inorganic contaminants from drinking water
- Knowledge exchange at the interface of science with policy and practice
- Biogeochemical cycling of trace elements in natural waters (focus on Arsenic and redox cycling)
Honours and Awards
- 2020 to present Member Swiss Commission for UNESCO
- 2019 to present Co-chair, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Switzerland
- 2018 Clarke Water Prize (NWRI) recognizes outstanding contributions to research in water science, technology and policy
- 2018 to present Fellow, the Geochemical Society
- 2018 to present Fellow, European Association of Geochemistry
- 2017 to present Honorary Fellow, IHE Delft, the Netherlands
- 2017 to present Foreign member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- 2015 to present Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
- 2015 Recipient, IUPAC 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Awards
- 2010 to present Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science
- 2007 Honorary Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2004 - 2007 Associate Editor, Environmental Science and Technology
- 2001 - 2003 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow
- 1995 NSF, US Presidential Faculty Fellows Award
