Rate My Professor Meagan Mauter

Professor Meagan Mauter is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, with additional appointments as Associate Professor of Photon Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy, and Associate Professor by courtesy of Chemical Engineering. She directs the Water and Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab (WE3Lab). Her research focuses on developing sustainable water supply solutions in a carbon-constrained world through innovations in water treatment technology, optimization of water management practices, and redesign of water policies. Specific efforts include advancing automated, precise, robust, intensified, modular, and electrified water desalination technologies to support a circular water economy; identifying synergies in decarbonized water and energy systems; and informing water-energy policy design and enforcement. She also serves as Research Director for the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a Department of Energy Energy-Water Desalination Hub focused on energy-efficient and cost-competitive technologies for desalinating non-traditional source waters.

Professor Mauter holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Rice University, a Master of Environmental Engineering from Rice University, and a PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University. Prior to joining Stanford, she was an Energy Technology Innovation Policy Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and served as Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her honors include the American Chemical Society Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Lectureship Award, the American Society of Civil Engineers Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the NSF CAREER Award, and the North American Membrane Society Young Membrane Scientist Award. She has held editorial advisory board roles with journals including Environmental Science & Technology Letters, ACS ES&T Engineering, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.