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Program Area: Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Education Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 1993 B.S., Economic Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 1988 B.S. + M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 1987 Honors - Illinois Consortium for Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR) Donald A. Holt Achievement Award, received as a member of the Livestock and Urban Waste Recycling Research Team (2003) - Flemish Science Foundation Fellowship (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, FWO, Vlaanderen) (2002 - 2003) - Paul L. Busch Award, Water Environment Research Foundation Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research – in recognition for contributions to research in water quality and the practical application of research in the water environment (2002) - Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Distinguished Service Award (2002) - Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois (1998-2005) - National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award (1997) - Xerox Award for Faculty Research, College of Engineering, University of Illinois (1997, 2002) - "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students", University of Illinois (Spring 1997, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005) - Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois (1996-1997) - National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (1994) Awards with graduate students: - American Water Works Association Illinois Section, Advisor of Xu Li and Young Chul Choi, receiving First Prize for Poster Presentation in Young Professional Section (2005) - International Water Association, First International Workshop on the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1, Lyngby, Denmark, Advisor of Toshio Shimada, receiving First Prize for Poster Presentation (2005) - Water Environment Federation, Advisor of Francis de los Reyes, receiving First Place in Student Paper Competition Ph.D. Category (1999) - Montgomery Watson and Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors M.S. Thesis Award, First Place, Advisor of Daniel Oerther (1999) - Illinois Water Environment Association, Advisor of Francis de los Reyes, receiving Best Student Paper Award (1998) - Montgomery Watson and Association of Environmental Engineering Professors M.S. Thesis Award, Second Place, Advisor of Matthew Griffin (1997) Professional Affiliation and Activities: American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Microbiology, American Water Works Association, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, International Water Association, Water Environment Federation Technical Interests: Professor Raskin’s areas of research are biological water and wastewater treatment, anaerobic treatment, methanogens, sulfate-reducing bacteria, perchlorate-reducing bacteria, activated sludge foaming, activated sludge microbiology and system performance, treatment of food processing and agricultural waste streams, membrane bioreactors, antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance in the environment and in biological treatment systems, biofilms, molecular microbial ecology, molecular techniques in environmental microbiology, mathematical modeling of biological processes. Selected Publications Zilles, J., T. Shimada, Jindal, A., M. Robert, L. Raskin "Presence of Macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B and Tetracycline Antimicrobials in Swine Waste Treatment Processes and Amended Soil," Water Environment Research, 77 (1), 57-62, 2005. McMahon, K. D., D. Zheng, A. J. M. Stams, R. I. Mackie, and L. Raskin, "Microbial Population Dynamics During Startup and Overload Conditions of Anaerobic Digesters Treating Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Sludge," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 87 (7), 823-834, 2004. Xi, C., D. Marks, D. S. Parikh, L. Raskin, and S. Boppart, "Structural and Functional Imaging of Three-Dimensional Microfluidic Mixers using Optical Coherence Tomography" Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, 101(20), 7516-7521, 2004. Angenent, L. T., S. Sung, and L. Raskin, "Formation of granules and Methanosaeta fibers in an anaerobic migrating blanket reactor (AMBR)," Environmental Microbiology, 6 (4), 315-322, 2004. Xi, C., M. Balberg, S. Boppart, and L. Raskin, "Use of DNA and Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) molecular beacons for the detection and quantification of rRNA in solution and in whole cells," Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69(9), 5673-5678, 2003. |
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