Timothy J. Strathmann

Associate Professor Vernon L. Snoeyink Faculty Scholar

"Our students use their multidisciplinary education to develop innovative solutions to 21st Century environmental problems."

3209 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

205 N. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: 
(217) 244-4679

Timothy J. Strathmann holds B.S. (1995) and M.S. (1996) degrees in civil engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. (2001) in environmental engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Strathmann has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2003. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental engineering, with special emphasis on aquatic chemical aspects of environmental engineering processes.
 
Dr. Strathmann is a member of the Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS). He is also an active member of the American Chemical Society, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and the Geochemical Society.
 
He has received a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, the Xerox Faculty Research Award, and the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising.
 
Research Overview: 
Dr. Strathmann’s research specialty is environmental engineering chemistry, using chemical principles and modern analytical techniques to guide the development of sustainable technologies for meeting some of our greatest environmental challenges, including the need for safe drinking water and renewable energy. Current research efforts include the development of more sustainable catalytic water treatment processes for contaminants of emerging concern (e.g., pharmaceuticals, hormones, oxyanions), development of hydrothermal catalytic processes for bioenergy production and waste-to-energy conversion, and mechanistic investigations of redox transformation processes for aquatic contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic systems.