Charles J. Werth holds a B.S. (Texas A&M University, 1988) degree in mechanical engineering, and M.S. (Stanford University, 1992) and Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1996) degrees in environmental engineering and science. He also holds a Ph.D. minor (Stanford University, 1996) in Chemistry.

Dr. Werth has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1997.  He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in hazardous waste site assessment, remediation and management, environmental transport modeling, sustainable urban engineering, and drinking water treatment processes.

Dr. Werth is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, and is a Fellow of the Department of Energy's William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.  He has received a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Arthur and Virginia Nauman Faculty Scholar Award, the Humbolt Research Fellow Award, and the BP Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction.