Prof. Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth
Prof. Dr. Eberhard Morgenroth
Full Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Additional information
Research area
Eberhard Morgenroth’s research is focused on process engineering in urban water management with emphasis on:
· Membranes and membrane bioreactors for water reuse: Mechanisms of soluble EPS production, aggregate structure of flocs and granules in MBR, biofilm formation and structure on membrane,
combination of biological treatment with sorptive media, energy recovery in MBR.
· Control of biofilms and biofilm reactors: Monitoring biofilm development in-situ in reactors and distribution systems, process development, mathematical modeling for the practitioner.
· Biological drinking water treatment: Combined removal of macro and micropollutants, combined biological removal and sorption.
· Decentralized wastewater treatment: Process development, monitoring and control, social and economic aspects.
Eberhard Morgenroth holds an MS (University of California 1994), Dipl.-Ing. (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg 1995), and PhD (Technical University of Munich 1998), all in civil and environmental engineering.
After two years of postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000 to 2009).
Since 2009 he is a Professor for Process Engineering in Urban Water Management with appointments at ETH Zürich and at Eawag.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2014 | IWA Global Project Innovation Award for Blue Diversion Toilet (Global Honour Award for the Applied Research Category) |
| 2007 | Harold E. Babbitt Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 2004 | Xerox Awards for Faculty Research from the College of Engineering recognizing outstanding research during the past year. |
| 2003 | Beckman Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois (www.cas.uiuc.edu) to study "Mechanisms of Coexistence in Binary Culture Biofilms". |
| 2003 | C-FAR Donald A. Holt Achievement Award as part of the Livestock and Urban Waste Recycling Research Team awarded by the Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research |
| 2003 | "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students" |
| 2002 | NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. |
| 1998 | Ulrich-Finsterwalder-Award sponsored by Dykerhoff & Widmann and presented by the department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Munich for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. |
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 102-0214-AAL | Introduction to Urban Water Management |
| 102-0214-01L | Excursion - Water Supply of Vienna |
| 102-0214-02L | Introduction to Urban Water Management |
| 102-0217-01L | Process Engineering Ib |
| 102-0510-00L | Introduction to Environmental Monitoring |