Professor Eric Hoek

Professor

University of California, Los Angeles (USA)

Dr. Eric Hoek is a professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a faculty scientist in the Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and also a faculty member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability and the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute. He is also the Faculty Director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, Deputy Topic Area Leader for Process Innovation & Intensification in the U.S. D.O.E funded National Alliance for Water Innovation, and Editor-in-Chief of npj Clean Water. Dr. Hoek’s research explores the union of membrane technologies, nanomaterials and electrochemistry for water, energy and environmental applications. He has published over 150 scientific publications in addition to being co-Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Membrane Science and Technology and co-authoring books on sustainable Desalination and Water Reuse and Oil & Gas Produced Water Management. Dr Hoek has also co-founded several technology companies and advises a number of private companies, government agencies, non-profits and investment funds.