Hering, Janet
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Janet Hering, director of Eawag, (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), has been Full Professor for Environmental Biogeochemistry at ETH Zurich since January 2007. Janet Hering has specialized in techniques for making contaminated water drinkable, and in the biogeochemical behaviour of trace metals. Hering is no newcomer to Eawag, having carried out postdoctoral research at the institute from 1988 to 1991. She studied chemistry at Cornell University and graduated with a Master-s degree from Harvard University in 1981. She earned a PhD in oceanography from MIT in 1988. At the University of California in Los Angeles, she held the post of Assistant Professor (1991) and later 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 until 1999. In 2002, she was awarded a professorship at Caltech, and she became Engineering Executive Officer at Keck Laboratories in 2003. Janet Hering also sits on the editorial advisory board of Environmental Science and Technology.
Research Interest
Environmental Biogeochemistry.
Publications
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Drivers for and against municipal wastewater recycling: a review. Kunz NC, Fischer M, Ingold K, Hering JG. Water Sci Technol. 2016;73(2):251-9. doi: 10.2166/wst.2015.496.
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A Call for Synthesis of Water Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Hering JG, Maag S, Schnoor JL. Environ Sci Technol. 2016 Jun 21;50(12):6122-3. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02598. Epub 2016 Jun 6
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Maintaining Trust and Objectivity in the Context of Use-Inspired Research. Hering JG. Environ Sci Technol. 2017 Feb 7;51(3):1054. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05825. Epub 2017 Jan 9.
