Lutgarde Raskin is a Belgian-American

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and Professor of

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. She is best known for her studies of microbial ecology in engineered water systems for sewage treatment and drinking water production. Raskin earned her B.S. and M.S. in engineering and her B.S. in economics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 1993, she completed her Ph.D. at the

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. From 1993-2005, she was a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois. Since 2005, she has been a member of the faculty of the

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where she currently holds the Altarum Institute/ERIM Russell O’Neal Endowed Professorship. Raskin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) and the

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(WEF). In 2006, she won the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers, in 2007, she won the Frontier Award in Research from the

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, and in 2016, she won the ISME/ IWA Biocluster Award. In 2021, Raskin was elected a member of the

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for, "application of genetic tools to improve anaerobic biological water treatment." Raskin has advocated for changes in the operation of drinking water treatment facilities to encourage the growth of potentially beneficial microorganisms. In the wake of the Flint water crisis, she responded to allegations by

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that researchers at the

declined to collaborate on joint research of the problem.

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