Federal Council appoints Janet Hering as new director of Eawag
June, 28th 2006
Professor Janet Hering will take up the post of Director of Eawag,
the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, starting 1
January 2007. The Federal Council has selected an outstanding individual and
internationally recognised scientist to head Eawag. Janet Hering, born 1958, US
citizen, is Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Executive Officer at Keck
Laboratories.
Janet Hering is a prominent scientist who specialises in
techniques for making contaminated water drinkable, and in the biogeochemical
behaviour of trace metals in the environment. She studied chemistry at Cornell
University and graduated with a Master’s degree from Harvard University in 1981.
Hering earned a Ph.D. in oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in 1988. Postdoctoral studies first brought her to Eawag from 1988 to1991,
from where she was called to the University of California in Los Angeles,
initially as Assistant Professor (1991) and subsequently Associate Professor
(1995). On transferring to the California Institute of Technology in 1997, she
retained her ties with the University of California in the capacity of Adjunct
Professor. Caltech awarded her a professorship in 2002.
- Media release [pdf, 15 KB]
- Website of Janet Hering