Amisha Shah

Assistant Professor of Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Civil Engineering

Amisha Shah received her B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008.

Before joining Purdue, she was a research associate in the Water Resources and Drinking Water Division at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG). She was a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University before joining EAWAG in 2012.

Shah’s research and teaching interests include environmental chemistry, contaminant reaction kinetics, mechanisms and byproduct formation, analytical chemistry, and mass transport mechanisms as it pertains to water treatment, sustainable water reuse, ballast water treatment, and CO2-capture technologies.