Professor Giammar is the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on chemical reactions that affect the fate and transport of heavy metals, radionuclides, and other inorganic constituents in natural and engineered aquatic systems. He is particularly interested in reactions occurring at solid-water interfaces. His recent work investigated the removal of arsenic and chromium from drinking water, control of the corrosion of lead pipes, geologic carbon sequestration, and biogeochemical processes for remediation of uranium-contaminated sites.
Professor Giammar is the chair of the 2021 AEESP conference, “Environmental Engineering at the Confluence.” It is designed to be inclusive of the full breadth of environmental engineering, while providing an opportunity to explore convergence and highlight emerging developments in our field. The program will be organized around four areas of convergence: convergence of education and research, convergence of research in air, water, and soil, convergence of research and action, and convergence of research, practice, and entrepreneurship.
Professor Giammar completed his BS at Carnegie Mellon University, MS and PhD at Caltech, and postdoctoral training at Princeton University before joining Washington University in St. Louis in 2002. In 2012-2013 he was a visiting professor at Princeton.