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Mike Carney
Mike Carney qualified from Birmingham University with a First in chemical
engineering and then undertook an MSc in water resources technology. He
worked as a process design engineer for Paterson Candy and Schweppes where
he was responsible for water and effluent treatment worldwide. As Technical
Director of a water treatment contractor, he was responsible for the design of
numerous food and beverage water and effluent treatment plants worldwide.
Now working as an independent consultant at Vale Water Services Ltd, he
specialises in the same food and beverage ficld. He is a Fellow of the Institution of
Chemical Engineers.
Contact: vale-water@ compuserve.com

john Hutcheson
Dr Hutcheson is currently General Manager of Pharmaceuticals at Christ
Kennicott with extensive expertise in pure and ultrapure water treatment system
design. On gaining a PhD in organic synthetic chemistry in 1980 he spent three
years working in downstream processing at Beecham Pharmaceuticals followed
by a short tenure at Millipore before becoming a founding member of Ionpure
Technologies Ltd. He transferred to Kinetics in 2000, joining Christ Kennicott in
2002. He has authored a number of papers and presented at international
conferences and courses on aspects of water purification.
Contact: john.hutcheson@christwt.co.uk

Audrey Levine
Audrey Levine is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at the University of South Florida. She holds a BS degree in biology from Bates
College (Lewiston, Maine), an MS degree in public health from Tulane University
and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis. Prior to
joining the faculty at USF she was a faculty member at Utah State University
(1994-1 998), New Jersey Institute of Technology (1992-1994) and Iowa State
University (1985-1992). She is actively involved in research and teaching
related to wastewater reclamation and reuse, water distribution systems, potable
water treatment, corrosion control and water quality issues. She is currently
working on projects related to pathogen reduction through wastewater
treatment, the fate of pharmaceuticals in reclaimed water systems and
distillation of reclaimed water.
Contact: levine@eng.usf.edu

lutta Nuortila-Jokinen
Professor Nuortila-Jokinen obtained her MSc in polymer chemistry at Helsinki
University in 1988. Since 198 7 she has worked in the Laboratory of MemPo, the
Laboratory of Membrane Technology and Technical Polymer Chemistry at
Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), as Research Assistant,
Researcher and Associate Professor. She received her doctorate at LUT in 1997
before joining the Cleantech 2000 project (1997-2000) as Research Professor.
She is currently working as Senior Fellow funded by the Acadcmy of Finland