Gary L. Amy presently holds the position of Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Science at Clemson University. Until recently, he was a Visiting Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was instrumental in establishing the Singapore National Membrane Consortium (SG-MEM). He is also Emeritus Professor and Former (Founding) Director of the Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. Prior to KAUST, he was Professor of Water Supply Engineering at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands, where he held a joint appointment at the Technical University of Delft. Earlier, he was Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder (USA) and at the University of Arizona (USA).

Over a career of 45 years, Dr. Amy’s main areas of expertise have been in drinking water quality and treatment, desalination, and wastewater reclamation/reuse, with specific expertise in membrane rejection and fouling, selective adsorption, natural organic matter characterization, disinfection by-product formation and control, and natural systems. Dr. Amy’s present research focus is on emerging low-energy membrane-based desalination technologies. At KAUST, his major research emphasis was on seawater desalination technologies, energy-harvesting wastewater treatment processes, and managed aquifer recharge for wastewater reuse. At UNESCO-IHE, he was involved in various European Union (EU) and other sponsored projects on membrane-based desalination, membrane bioreactors, natural drinking water and wastewater treatment processes, and organic and inorganic micropollutants. He has published over 500 articles in refereed publications and supervised more than 50 PhD students. Dr. Amy is the recipient of the 2017 A. P. Black Research Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He has received best paper awards from the Journal AWWA and the Journal of the Water Environment Federation. His PhD students have received best dissertation awards from the AWWA and the IOA. He was recipient of a Fulbright Award for Germany (2003-2004), was invited as Distinguished Lecturer, Korea Brain 21 Program (2002), and was appointed Visiting Scholar at Kyoto University, Japan (2001).