Prof. Shane Allen Snyder
Ensuring the Safety of a Diverse Water Portfolio in a Rapidly Changing Climate.
Dr. Shane Allen Snyder is the President’s Chair Professor of Water Technologies and an Executive Director at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). Dr. Snyder’s research focuses on water quality, treatment, and sustainability, which resulted in over 300 published manuscripts and over 32,000. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the American Chemical Society journal, Environmental Science & Technology Water and was previously an Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Chemosphere. Prof. Snyder is a Fellow of the International Water Association and a Board Certified Environmental Scientist (BCES) by Eminence from the American Academy of Engineers and Scientists. He has served on several US Environmental Protection Agency expert panels, including the Science Advisory Board drinking water committee and the Board of Scientific Counselors Sustainable Water committee. He was a member of the US National Academy of Science’s National Research Council Committee on Water Reuse and also served on the World Health Organization’s expert committee for development of potable reuse guidelines. Prof. Snyder was awarded the Dr. Pankaj Parekh Research Innovation Award from the Water Research Foundation, the Agilent Thought Leader Award, and the Nanyang Humanitarian Award, among others. Recently, Prof. Snyder was awarded the 2021 Clarke Prize, broadly considered as one of the most prestigious awards for outstanding achievements in water science and technology.