Menachem Elimelech

Menachem Elimelech (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם אֱלִימֶלֶךְ) is the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. Elimelech is the only professor from an engineering department at Yale to be awarded the Sterling professorship since its establishment in 1920. Elimelech moved from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to Yale University in 1998 and founded Yale's Environmental Engineering program.

Elimelech was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2021, the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2022, and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2022. He is recognized for his pioneering work on membrane processes for desalination and water reuse, materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes, membrane-based brine and wastewater management technologies, particle and microbial pathogen filtration, and environmental applications of nanotechnology. Several of his findings have become textbook materials and are applied to engineered systems. Provided by Wikipedia