Mark van Loosdrecht

Mark van Loosdrecht (born 1959) is a Dutch professor in environmental biotechnology at Delft University of Technology.

[6] Van Loosdrecht was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

[10][11] In 2012 Van Loosdrecht was nominated for the European Inventor Award in the Research category for a water purification technology.

[2] In March 2018 Van Loosdrecht won the Stockholm Water Prize for revolutionizing wastewater treatment.

Their research demonstrated the possibilities to remove harmful contaminants from water, cut wastewater treatment costs, reduce energy consumption, and even recover chemicals and nutrients for recycling.