Irene Xagoraraki

Irene Xagoraraki
  • Professor
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

WEBSITE

https://www.egr.msu.edu/~xagorara/index.html

BIOGRAPHY

Irene Xagoraraki earned her Ph.D. (2001) and MS (1995) in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BS degree (1993) from the University of the Aegean in Greece. Before coming to MSU she held a postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include drinking water safety, public health, and water quality engineering, with a particular focus on the detection, removal and inactivation of emerging biological and chemical contaminants in drinking water. Her recent research includes: occurrence of waterborne viruses in natural waters, fate of pharmaceuticals in water utilities, disinfection of enteric viruses in groundwater systems; inactivation of cyanobacterial toxins by chlorine, emerging pathogen removal in conventional water treatment processes, and coagulation and sedimentation of cryptosporidium parvum. The focus of her teaching is on water quality engineering.

 

AREA OF EXPERTISE

  • Water quality engineering
  • Protection of public health
  • Prevention of waterborne disease
  • Emerging water contaminants