Dr. Olya S. Keen

Assistant Professor

Mailing address:

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

9201 University City Blvd

Charlotte, NC 28223

Office: EPIC 3171

Phone: 704-687-5048

E-mail: okeen@uncc.edu

Curriculum Vitae: click here

Research interests:

• Emerging contaminants: detection and analytical chemistry; environmental effects; fate and transport; treatment processes; transformation products in the natural and engineered systems
• Wastewater treatment and water reuse: advanced treatment technologies; resource recovery; applications for municipal effluent reuse, graywater reuse and in-house treatment and reuse for buildings and industries
• Ultraviolet-based processes and advanced oxidation processes: direct and indirect photolysis in natural and engineered systems, UV and ozone based advanced oxidation processes, photocatalysis

Please see “Research” tab for current and recent projects and an overview of analytical capabilities.

Resources for job-seeking students:

• WateReuse has a database of job postings related to water reuse and water resources in general: http://careers.watereuse.org/jobs/
• This website from ORAU has a variety of job listings in many scientific fields that can be searched by keywords: https://www.zintellect.com/Home/Applicant

Research group news:

09/25/2013      Dr. Keen received an award from the International Ultraviolet Association for Best UV Research Paper for the Year 2012 for her journal article “The role of effluent nitrate in trace organic chemical oxidation during UV disinfection” co-authored with Drs. Karl Linden and Nancy Love and published in Water Research.

https://www.iuva.org/news/iuva-presents-awards

09/01/2013      Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in conjunction with Chemistry Department was awarded a Major Research Instrumentation Grant from the National Science Foundation for an acquisition of an HPLC/ESI-MS ion trap system.  The new instrument will dramatically increase the capabilities for research of emerging contaminants.