Speaker profile
Dr Christine Switzer
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Dr Christine Switzer is a Lecturer in Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Broadly, her research interests lie in the areas of contaminant fate, transport, and remediation as well as rehabilitation of post-remediation soils. She is co-inventor of the patented smouldering remediation process that has been deployed successfully at contaminated sites all over the world. She and her co-inventors were presented with the Lord Ezra Award for innovation in combustion engineering in 2009 and the commercial team was awarded the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists Superior Achievement Award in 2017.