Prof. Bruce Logan

• Penn State University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Engineering Energy & Environmental Institute
• Email: bel3@engr.psu.edu

Professor Bruce E. Logan is the Stan & Flora Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, Director of the Engineering Energy & Environmental Institute at Penn State University, and Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science &Technology Letters. His current research focuses on renewable production and the development of an energy sustainable water infrastructure, which includes topics such as microbial fuel cells, bioelectrochemical systems for hydrogen gas production, salinity gradient energy, and novel electrochemical desalination technologies. Dr. Logan is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Water Association (IWA), the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP). Dr. Logan is a visiting professor at several universities including HIT, Tsinghua University, Dalian University of Technology (China), with ties to several other universities in Saudi Arabia, the UK, and Belgium. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley, and prior to joining Penn State in 1997, he was on the faculty at the University of Arizona in Tucson.