Faculty of Civil Engineering & Architecture,

University of Applied Sciences Dresden,

Friedrich-List-Platz 1, D-01069 Dresden

Germany

Phone: +49 (351) 4623350,

Fax: +49 (351) 4623567

E-mail: grischek@htw-dresden.de

Education

• Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Water Engineering       Diploma 1990

• Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Groundwater       Suppl. Diploma 1991

• Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Water Engineering       Ph.D. 2002

Appointments

08/03-present: Professor (Civil Eng), Head of Division of Water Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany

10/02-7/03: Instructor, Saxon State Authority for Environment and Geology, Germany

1/98-9/02: Associate Scientist, Institute for Water Chemistry, TU Dresden

1/95-12/97: Research Associate, Institute for Geotechnics and Water, University of Applied Sciences Dresden

9/90-12/94: Research Assistant, Institute for Groundwater Management, TU Dresden

Synergistic Activities

1. Dean of Study Affairs for Civil Engineering, Head of the course “Environmental Engineering” for international students at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden
2. Initiated and runs the “Cooperation Centre for River Bank Filtration” in Haridwar, India, accepted as demonstration site by the Commission of Managed Aquifer Recharge of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)
3. Working in India, Thailand, Russia, Egypt, Brazil and Costa Rica to develop low cost and natural treatment technologies for water supply and training personnel.
4. Associate Editor, Journal Grundwasser (FH-DGG), Journal Sustainable Water Resources Management

He received both his MSc and PhD from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and is specialized in Anaerobic Treatment technology.

He (co-) published over 200 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and over 350 publications in conference proceedings and scientific books from 1988 onwards.

From 1988 – 2008 he was working at Wageningen University, where he obtained an appointment as part time professor in Anaerobic Treatment Technology in 2005. In the period 1997 –2005 he also was director of the Lettinga Associates Foundation (LeAF).

His research interest comprises the development of cost-effective technologies for (waste)water treatment, recovering resources such as water, nutrients, biogas, elements from waste streams. Research projects are focused on closing water cycles in industries and sewage water recovery for irrigated agriculture. He promoted 17 and co-promoted 5 PhD students and is supervising 16 PhD students at this moment.

Jules van Lier chaired the IWA Anaerobic Digestion Specialist group between 2001 and 2009. In 2011 he became nominated member of the IWA Fellow programme.

• 5791-5791Fellow  at  the  National  Engineering  Laboratory (Lisbon,  Portugal)
• 5791-5791Scientific  Assistant  at  Institute  of  Geology  and Palaeontology,  Technical  University  of  Berlin  (TU-Berlin
• 5791-5795Associate  Professor  at  Institute  of  Geology  and Palaeontology,  Technical  University  of  Berlin  (TU-Berlin)
• since 1989 Full professor, head of Department of Hydrogeology,  Institute of Applied  Geosciences  (Technical University of Berlin)
• Courses for InWent on Hydrogeology in developing countries
• Invited  professor  for  field  hydrogeology  courses  to  the universities  of  Brasilia,  Curitiba,  Santiago  de  Chile
• Dean  of  the course  of  Water  Engineering  TU  Berlin  El Gouna
• Director  of  TU  Central  Institute  El  Gouna
• Member  of  ASIIN  –  Accreditation  of  Higher  Education Study  Courses

Some  research  fields

• Socio-economic  land  stabilization  by  aquifer  storage  and recovery  (artificial  recharge)  in  southern  Portugal
• Water  supply  of  Charroux  de  Allier  (France)
• Contamination  of  aquifers  south  of  Berlin  by  sewage  farms
• Sewage  farms  of  Abu  Rawash  and  Gabal  El  Aswar  (Cairo)
• Marine  water  intrusion  in  the  delta  of  the  River  Nile
• Hydro-tectonics  in  southern  Portugal
• Characterization  of  the  thermal  aquifer  of  Caldas  Novas (Goias,-  Brazil)
• Rehabilitation  of  contaminated  aquifers  in  old  mining districts  in  Brazil
• Water  supply  of  Damascus  from  deep  karst  aquifers  in  the Anti-Libanon
• Water  supply  from  Khors  for  Port  Sudan
• Water  supply  of  new  cities  in  Russia  and  Armenia  from different  aquifers
• Water  in  the  Atacama  desert  (various  studies)

Practical  experience

• 5791-5791Free  Lancer  for  Klöckner  Industrieanlagen  (water

            in  mining  activities)

• 5771-5791Consultant for  GTZ
• 5797-5791General Manager of     ARGE     Umwelt     TEC (Consulting  Company  for  Insurance  Companies)

Memberships

DWA,  IAH,  FH-DGG,  Urbenvironment

born in Marburg/Lahn, West-Germany

Married, three children

Elementary School, Am Eichwaeldchen, Kassel

Highschool, Goetheschule Kassel

Study of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Clausthal

Graduation Diplom-Ingenieur (Grade: Very good)

Technical Assistant, Oeko-Systeme GmbH, Breitscheid, Germany

Research Engineer, Institut fuer Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, Technical University of Clausthal

Consultant, TECON GmbH, Clausthal, Germany

Scholarship of the Dechema, Frankfurt, Program Biotechnology, Research with Prof. Vogelpohl, Institut fuer Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, TU Clausthal

Ph. D. (with honors)

Head of the Water Treatment Group, Institut fuer Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, TU Clausthal

Consultant, TECHNOCON GmbH, Clausthal, Germany

Assistant Professor, Institut fuer Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, TU Clausthal

Lecturer (official title: Akademischer Rat) at TU Clausthal

Lecturer (official title: Akademischer Oberrat) at TU Clausthal

Professor and head of the Environmental Process Engineering Chair, Department of Environmental Technology, Technische Universität Berlin

Professor  in  the  Water  Pollution  Control  Research  Department

of  the  National  Research  Centre  (NRC)  in  Egypt.  Dr.  Fatma

acquired  a  Doctorate  degree  in  Civil  Engineering  from  the

Technical  University  in  Hannover,  Germany.  Dr.  El-Gohary  has

held  several  leading  positions  in  the  NRC;  she  was  the  former

head  of  the  Water  Pollution  Control  Research  Department

followed  by  the  Environmental  Research  Division.

Dr.  El-Gohary  has  had  a  very  prominent  presence  on  the

international  level  as  well  thanks  to  her  contributions  in

international  conferences,  research  projects  and  expert  group

meetings.  Over  one  hundred  papers  have  been  published  in

scientific  periodicals  and  over  40  Master’s  and  PhD  candidates

have  been  supervised  by  Dr.  Fatma.

Her  work  over  the  years  has  been  acknowledged  through  various

awards  and  merit.  In  2014  Dr.  El-Gohary  has  been  awarded  Al

Nil  Prize  for  Advanced  Sciences.  She  has  also  been  awarded

The  State  Merit  Prize  for  Advanced  Sciences  for  the  2002,  the

National  Prize  for  scientific  Excellency  in  the  area  of  Advanced

Sciences  for  the  year  1998,  the  Global  500  award  from  UNEP

for  the  year  1988,  and  the  Eisenhower  Fellowship  for  the  year

1986  (USA).  She  has  also  received  the  National  Research  Centre

Prize  for  Scientific  Excellency  in  the  area  of  Environmental

Science  for  the  year  1985  and  the  State  Prize  Environmental

Sciences  for  the  year  1979.

He  has  led  several  studies  in  Europe  and  in  France  on  the technical  level  (involving  various  state-of-the-art  technology),  as well  as  financial levels  (with  the  European  Union),  or  on  the

governance  of  water  services  (including  in  a  number  of

European capitals). He has written several books on performance  indicators,  on  overviews  of  service  management methods  and  on  asset  management  practices.  He  has  founded  the knowledge  management  &  information  service  centre  at  the IOW  and  has  been  at  the  origin  of  EMWIS/SEMIDE’s  creation in  the  Mediterranean  basin.

Since  May  2009,  he  has  been  Director  of  the  Water  for  All  Chair

at  ParisTech,  backed  by  AgroParisTech  for  the  management  of

the  International  OPT  Executive  Master  and  by  Mines  ParisTech

for  the  Research.  This  International  Executive  Masters  OPT

program  is  designed  for  managers  of  urban  water  and  sanitation

services  in  emerging  countries  and  is  presented  to  you  today.

Sharif founded the Centre for Osmosis Research & Application in 2003 and has been its Director since. Prof. Sharif is a founder of Modern Water plc, a London Exchange AIM Market listed company specialized in desalination and renewable power generation. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Advances in Environmental Chemistry, Int. J. of Process Systems Engineering, and honorary Editorial Consultant, Arab Water World magazine. He has over 100 publications; is an inventor and co-inventor of 20 patents and has supervised over 20 PhD theses and more than 50 MSc dissertations

• Philippe Reymond is an environmental engineer from Switzerland, working since more than 7 years at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department Sandec. He spent the last 6 years working with the Research & Development Department of HCWW on the topic of sanitation for the small rural villages and ezbas in the Nile delta, working both on the field and at policy level.
• Specialised in sanitation planning for low- and middle-income areas, he is now based in Zurich and works on sanitation planning projects in diverse countries such as Bolivia, Tajikistan and India.
• He is co-author of the Eawag – International Water Association (IWA) Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies and author of the planning section in the recently published IWA book on Faecal Sludge Management.