{"id":688,"date":"2023-02-19T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petermbach.com\/?page_id=688"},"modified":"2023-10-28T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T11:35:55","slug":"005-peter-vanrolleghem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/petermbach.com\/index.php\/podcast\/005-peter-vanrolleghem\/","title":{"rendered":"TGC Podcast Episode 005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Grand Challengers Podcast Episode #5<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Like wastewater for chocolate – control, serendipity and digital twins<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Guest: Peter A. Vanrolleghem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

February 28th, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s something passing by, but always be open to seize it\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In the face of an unpredictable future, we are all called upon each and every day to think of out-of-the box ways to tackle challenges to our environment, wellbeing or where to get raw materials for your chocolate and spaghetti enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My guest today is Professor Peter A. Vanrolleghem, a bio- and wastewater engineer from Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec City, Canada. Peter is widely known in the urban water and modelling fields and has a lifelong passion for understanding how we can engineer and control the microscopic world for the benefit of the environment and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s wide-ranging show takes us from chocolate and spaghetti deep into the world of urban wastewater where major shifts towards resource recovery and digitalization are taking place. We also delve into Peter\u2019s journey and his life-changing encounters with serendipity and mentorship in his career to date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Professor Peter A. Vanrolleghem is a bio-engineer from Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec City, Canada. He obtained his PhD in Applied Biological Sciences – Environmental Technology in 1994 from Ghent University (Belgium) on monitoring, modelling and control of activated sludge wastewater treatment processes with special emphasis on model calibration and experimental design. He is well known for initiating the BIOMATH<\/a> group at Ghent before his journey to Canada where he has been leading his group, modelEAU<\/a>, in Qu\u00e9bec for almost two decades. His research portfolio has since expanded to encompass many topics in urban wastewater systems, tackling challenges such as nutrient (removal and recovery), fate of micropollutants and pathogens, and emissions of greenhouse gases, by developing and using mathematical models, automated monitoring stations, process control and in-house pilot- and full-scale experimental work<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter is an eminent figure in the urban water sector and has been instrumental in bringing about significant shifts in our perception of wastewater management, ushering in a new paradigm of resource recovery, better collection and management of data and supporting the feasibility of digitalization in the field. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers and has supervised numerous PhD and Master students and post-docs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He maintains a strong international network of collaborators. Since 2006, he holds the Canada Research Chair on Water Quality Modeling and has been very active in numerous organisations including the International Water Association<\/a> (IWA Fellow and member of IWA\u2019s Board of Directors), the Water Environment Federation<\/a> (WEF Fellow) as chairman of MEGA (Modelling Expert Group of the Americas), R\u00e9seau Environnement<\/a> and the Canadian Association on Water Quality<\/a> (CAWQ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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