Professor Avner Adin (Feb. 3, 1943) is an internationally known environmental engineer who combines teaching, research, innovation, and engineering practice in the field of water treatment, wastewater reuse in irrigation and industry and Water Security and Safety. His special focus is filtration, electroflocculation, membrane pretreat. &related processes in particle separation tech.
Prof. Adin received his B.Sc, M.Sc and D.Sc. degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa), and did post-doctoral work at the Univesrity of Iowa (USA). Appointed to the Hebrew University’s Lunenfeld-Kunin Chair of Environmental Sciences, Prof. Adin has taught at a number of other leading institutes and universities including Iowa State University, University of Houston, University of Cincinnati (USA); McMaster University (Canada); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico); Hokkaido University (Japan) and Ocean University of China. Management Team member of SWITCH – an EU huge international project on Integrated Water Management of Future Cities. He has also provided expert engineering assistance and performed applied research for a variety of national and international organizations including The World Bank, WHO, USAID, USEPA, WRC (Canada), CSRI (South Africa), EU and a number of private sector clients including Culligan, International Harvester, Coca-Cola and Intel. He serves as the Chairman of the national Drinking Water Standards Committee of Israel. In addition to his regular teaching, research and consulting duties, Prof. Adin is the founder and Chief Scientist of Treatec21 Industries, Ltd., a developer of innovative water and wastewater treatment processes.
Prof. Adin has published hundreds of scientific and technical articles in the areas of water treatment and reuse, clogging prevention in drip irrigation systems and environmental pollution control. Prof. Adin is the Founder and Past-President of the Israeli Water Association, a Board Member and a founder of Waterfronts-Israeli Water Union, and board member of Water Environment Federation (WEF) and of the International Water Association (IWA) where he also serves on the Specialist Group on Particle Separation Committee. He was also an active member of the prestigious International Consortium of Filtration Groups (INCOFILT) and Member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA).