Honors

A. P. Black Research Award Nominee (Texas Section), Recognizing outstanding research contributions to water science and water supply rendered over an appreciable period of time, American Water Works Association, 2024
Holder of the A.P. & Florence Wiley Professorship III, 2021 – present
Faculty Fellow of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-2022
Zachry Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2019
Elected to Board of Directors, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Foundation, July 2016 – July 2019
Elected to Board of Directors, North American Membrane Society (NAMS), June 2015 – June 2018
Distinguished Service Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Foundation, 2019
Research Impact Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2017
J. Walter “Deak” Porter ‘22 & James W. “Bud” Porter ‘51 Professorship, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2015-2021
Distinguished Service Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, 2016
Most downloaded paper between 1/2014 – 6/2014 and 3^rd most downloaded paper in all of 2014 (Bozlaker et al. Environmental Science and Technology, 48 54-62)
Elected to Board of Directors, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, July 2013 – July 2016
Overseas Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, July 2012 – present
Visiting Professor, Environmental Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, June – August 2011
Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology, 2008
W.T. Kittinger Outstanding Teacher Award, Cullen College of Engineering (College’s highest teaching award), 2008
Outstanding Teacher Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2006-2007
Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service as Chair of the Masters’ Thesis Award Subcommittee, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, 2005
Outstanding Teacher Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2003-2004
Certificate of Merit for the Oral Presentation, Division of Environmental Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2004
Junior Faculty Research Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2003
National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2002
Co-author of an invited feature paper in Environmental Science and Technology, 1999
Doctoral fellowship, Rice University, 1994-1995
Larson Aquatic Research Scholarship, American Water Works Association, 1992-1993
Eleanor and Mills Bennett Fellowship, Rice University, 1992-1994