Plenary Lecture at DESAL 2025 in Florida
November 19, 2025
Meny delivered a plenary lecture at the 7th International Conference on Desalination Science and Technology (DESAL 2025) in Clearwater Beach, Florida. His talk, titled “Membrane Technologies for Desalination and Water Reuse: Where Are We Now?”, emphasized the critical need for bottom-up molecular design of next-generation membranes for desalination, water reuse, and resource recovery. Read more on LinkedIn.
Jishan Receives Young Researcher Best Oral Presentation Award at DESAL 2025
November 19, 2025
Postdoctoral researcher Jishan Wu was awarded the “Young Researcher Best Oral Presentation” at the 7th International Conference on Desalination Science and Technology (DESAL 2025). The award recognizes his presentation titled “Engineering interfacial layer for enhanced desalination performance in thin-film composite membranes.”
Plenary Lecture at MEMTEK 2025 in Turkey
November 13, 2025
Meny delivered a plenary lecture at the 8th International Symposium on Membrane Technologies and Applications (MEMTEK 2025) in İzmir, Turkey, where he also participated in a panel discussion on desalination and water reuse. Postdoc Hanqing Fan and PhD candidate Lauren Mazurowski (Yale) attended the conference and presented their research work. Read more on LinkedIn.
Meny Ranked #1 in Civil and Environmental Engineering by ScholarGPS
November 4, 2025
Meny was ranked #1 in Civil and Environmental Engineering, #1 in Reverse Osmosis, and #2 in Desalination by ScholarGPS. ScholarGPS evaluates over 30 million scholars globally through a fully quantitative ranking system based on research productivity, impact, and quality. Read more on the ScholarGPS website.
Postdoc Amit N. Shocron Appointed to Ben-Gurion University Faculty
July 25, 2025
Postdoc Amit N. Shocron (Yale) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, starting in October 2025. He will focus on uniting electrochemical processes and membrane sciences to develop electro-driven solutions for the climate-water-energy nexus. For more details about Amit, please see his website.
Postdoc Yanghua Duan Appointed to CSU Faculty
July 7, 2025
Postdoc Yanghua Duan has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, starting in August 2025. He will focus on developing innovative engineering solutions for treating non-traditional water sources to enhance water infrastructure resilience. For more details about Yanghua, please see his website.
Postdoc Arpita Iddya Appointed to NTU Faculty
July 1, 2025
Postdoc Arpita Iddya has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Nanyang Technological University, starting in Fall 2025. She will focus on developing advanced membrane technologies for sustainable separations and energy-efficient processes at the food-water-energy nexus. For more details about Arpita, please see her website.
Plenary Lecture at NET ZERO WaterTech Conference in Taiwan
June 13, 2025
Meny delivered a plenary lecture at the 2025 NET ZERO WaterTech Innovation Conference & Exhibition in Taiwan and visited TSMC’s cutting-edge Resource Recovery Facility & Zero-Waste Center, the world’s first industrial reclaimed water plant for advanced semiconductor processes. Read more on LinkedIn.
Postdoc Weiyi Pan Appointed to NUS Faculty
June 6, 2025
Postdoc Weiyi Pan has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore, starting in August 2025. He will focus on bridging aquatic chemistry and membrane technologies to advance sustainable solutions for water purification and the circular economy. For more details about Weiyi, please see his website.
Meny Attends Two European Conferences on Water and Membrane Separations
May 28, 2025
Meny attended the 7th Conference of Electrochemical and Membrane Separations in Wroclaw, Poland, and the Congress on Water Smart Economy & Society in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. During his visit, he also toured laboratories at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), exploring European approaches to resource recovery and the circular economy. Read more on LinkedIn.
Group Members Present Research Talks at NAMS
May 19, 2025
Thirteen group members presented their research at the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Junwei Zhang was recognized with the Best Poster Award for his exceptional work. Read more on LinkedIn.
Meny Receives Sidney Loeb Award from European Desalination Society
April 29, 2025
Meny received the Sidney Loeb Award from the European Desalination Society (EDS) at the annual conference in Porto, Portugal. The award is named after Dr. Sidney Loeb, who along with Dr. Srinivasa Sourirajan developed the first practical reverse osmosis membrane in the late 1950s and early 1960s, transforming water desalination technology. Read more on Rice news.
Rice Establishes Center for Membrane Excellence to Advance Separation Technologies for Energy and Sustainability
March 27, 2025
Rice University has established the Rice Center for Membrane Excellence (RiCeME), which is dedicated to developing advanced membrane materials and separation technologies for energy, environmental sustainability and chemical processing applications. Read about it in the recent Rice news release.
Keynote at Berkeley Water Day Symposium
March 20, 2025
Meny delivered a keynote address at the “Berkeley Water Day: Addressing Water Challenges of a Changing Climate” symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, alongside Professor Kongjian Yu from Peking University. The symposium brought together water experts to discuss critical topics, including water scarcity, desalination, water decontamination, sponge cities, and land-based climate resilience solutions. Read more on LinkedIn.
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