William Arnold
Environmental chemistry; pollutant fate and transport; water quality; remediation; sustainable solutions
Background & Expertise
William Arnold is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota. For the 2023-24 academic year, he was a distinguished teaching professor at Princeton University. He has also been a visiting scientist at Eawag (Switzerland) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research focuses on the fate and processing of organic chemicals in natural and engineered aquatic systems. He received his BS in chemical engineering from MIT (1994), MS in chemical engineering from Yale (1995) and PhD in environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University (1999).