Job description

Fasil Ejigu Eregno is an Associate Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering at the Department of Building, Energy and Material Technology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Water and Environmental Engineering from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), where he focused on Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Water Quality Modelling: On Drinking Water Sources, Recreational and Recycled Waters (2017).

His research interests include water and wastewater treatment technologies, on-site wastewater treatment systems, water safety in supply systems, water quality analysis and modeling, hydrodynamic and hydrological modeling, and health risk assessment and management in water and wastewater systems.

Fasil has published research on these topics in leading scientific journals. He currently supervises six PhD students whose research focuses on experimental and industry-driven topics within water and environmental engineering, such as resource recovery from wastewater, development of dynamic water quality models for surface and groundwater, and environmental health aspects related to One Health issues.

Areas of responsibility

• Teaching
• Research
• Environmental laboratory management
• Project coordination
• PhD student supervision
• MSc student supervision
• Creating university and industry partnership

Fasil, along with other colleagues in the department, covers courses relevant to the study of water and wastewater engineering.

BYG-3613 Centralized Wastewater Treatment System

BYG-3608: Water Supply System Engineering

BYG-3610: Analysis of Water Quality Parameters

BYG-3612: Decentralized/On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems

Fasil is also facilitating the new Master's study program in Water and Wastewater Engineering .

Research Projects

Fasil engages in various projects in the faculty.

Fasil is a coordinator of the One Health education and research project, funded by NORAD through the NORHED II programme. Additionally, he is involved in the OppSlam, ENFORCE, BRIDGE, and PEERS projects.