Mari Winkler

Dr. Winkler (Mari) joined the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department faculty at the University of Washington in May, 2015. During her scientific career she studied at the University Duisburg Essen (DE) (Chemistry Department), at University of British Columbia (CA) (Microbiology and Immunology Department), at Columbia University (Earth and Environmental Engineering Department), and at the University of New South Wales (AU) in the Marine-Microbiology Department. She received her PhD from the Environmental Biotechnology Department at Delft University of Technology (NL) and wrote two dissertations¹; one in the field of microbial ecology and one in environmental engineering. Besides academic research, her professional curriculum includes industrial experience in the water and wastewater sector. After she completed her dissertation she started working in the industry at GMB, where she was part of a team who designed wastewater treatment plans. In 2013 she received Europe’s most prestigious Marie Curie fellowship to conduct a Post Doc in the field of mathematical modeling at Ghent University, Belgium. 

 

Educational History

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

PhD in Environmental Engineering
Date of graduation: 09/2012
Dissertation title: Magic granules
Exchange student for 9 months at the Columbia University, New York City, USA

University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Master’s in Chemistry
Date of graduation: 11/2006
Thesis title: Determination of the microbial community composition of a conventional and membrane biological phosphorous removal system
Exchange student for 9 months at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Bachelor’s in Chemistry
10/2001 – 06/2004
Exchange student for 6 months at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

Employment History

University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Seattle, WA, USA
Assistant Professor 05/2015- current

Ghent University, Biosystems Engineering

Ghent, Belgium
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2013 – 02/2015

GMB international

Opheusden, The Netherlands
Consultant 09/2012 – 06/2013

Macherey-Nagel GmbH & Co. KG

Germany and Austria
Sales Manager 03/2007 – 07/2008

Profos

Regensburg, Germany
Marketing in the field of biotechnology 01/2007 – 02/2007

Biofilm Centre, Geo-microbiology

Duisburg, Germany
Lab Assistant 08/2005 – 12/2005

Institute for Surface-Biotechnology

Duisburg, Germany
Lab Assistant 01/2005 – 07/2005

Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganics

Muehlheim, Germany
Lab Assistant 12/2003 – 04/2004

Self-employed

Essen, Duisburg, Hamburg, Hannover, Cuxhaven, Germany
Event Management & Catering 02/1997 – 02/2004

 

Awards and Honors

1. John R. Kiely Endowed Professor, 2021-2026, University of Washington, USA
2. Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, 06/2019, CEE, University of Washington, USA
3. Marie Curie – European Scientist of the month, 12/2015, European Commission
4. Paul Busch Award, 09/2015, Water Environment Research Foundation, USA
5. B-IWA-Industry award, 02/2014, Belgium International Water Association
6. International ISME/IWA BioCluster Award, 02/2014, International Society for Microbial Ecology and International Water Association
7. FWO Postdoctoral fellowship, 09/2014, Flemish Research Council, Belgium
8. Top 4 PhD students in water related research, 2012, TU Delft, The Netherlands
9. CH2M Hill/AEESP outstanding doctoral dissertation award, 06/2013, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, USA
10. Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 09/2012, European Commission
11. Jaap van de Graaf award, 2013, Witteveen+Bos, The Netherlands
12. International Huber Technology Prize, 08/2012, Huber Technology Inc.
13. Top 4 PhD students in water related research, 2011, TU Delft, The Netherlands
14. Ruhrverband Fellowship – Wasserstipendium, 03/2006, Ruhrverband, Germany
15. Music Scholarship for piano and singing lessons, 1996, Music school Wunstrof, Germany

 

 

¹thesis can be downloaded under following link https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Ac4e977a6-db07-486a-9c6b-89329dd17048?collection=research