Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2001
M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1998
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1996
Biography
Prior to joining Washington University in 2002, Professor Giammar served as a research associate in Geosciences at Princeton University. Professor Giammar is active in environmental engineering research and education at the university and at the national level. Professor Giammar has served on national committees of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors and has been an invited member National Science Foundation committees on sustainable engineering and the development of the WATERS Network, a large-scale environmental research infrastructure project.
Professor Giammar's teaching and mentoring have been recognized by the Environmental Engineering Student Association's Professor of the Year Award and the Association of Graduate Engineering Students "Big Fish" Mentor of the Year Award. In 2006, Dr. Giammar received one of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. His research has been sponsored by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Professor Giammar is also a member of the Center for Materials Innovation and the Environmental Studies Program.
Research
Professor Giammar's research focuses on chemical reactions that affect the fate and transport of heavy metals and radionuclides in natural and engineered aquatic systems. His recent work investigated interactions of lead and phosphate at mineral-water interfaces, adsorption of arsenic to novel sorbent materials, control of lead concentrations in drinking water, environmental applications of nanostructured materials, and the environmental biogeochemistry of uranium.