Radisav D. Vidic, Ph.D.Picture

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh,

William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow

Address:

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15261-2294

TEL: (412) 624-1307

FAX: (412) 624-0135

e-mail: vidic@engrng.pitt.edu

 

Current Work and Highlights

        Radisav D. Vidic is an Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow of Environmental Engineering and Assistant Director of Engineering Center for Environment and Energy, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.  His professional expertise is in the area of physical/chemical unit processes for water, wastewater and hazardous waste treatment.  He performed ground-breaking research on the improvement of activated carbon-based adsorption processes for the control of organic compounds in aqueous phase by utilizing catalytic properties of activated carbon for oligomerization of these compounds.  For this work, he received 1993 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (National Award co-sponsored by CH2M-Hill and the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors) and 1991 Water Pollution Control Federation Award for Best Student Research Paper in the Ph.D. Category.  He also developed novel sorbents for the control of mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.

        Dr. Vidic is a graduate of the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia (B.S., 1987) and received his graduate education from the University of Illinois (M.S., 1989) and University of Cincinnati (Ph.D., 1992).?Before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, he worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois and University of Cincinnati.  He was also a Lecturer at the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Lund, Sweden.

        He is a member of the International Association on Water Quality (IAWQ) and an Associate Regional Editor for Water Research and is active in a number of national professional organizations.  He is a member of the Program Committee and Hazardous Waste and Ground Water Committee of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and a Chair of the Research Committee of the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association (PWEA); Chair of the Student Activities Committee and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee and Program Committee of the American Water Works Association (AWWA)?PA; member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a Technical Committee Chair for the 1995 ASCE National Environmental Engineering Conference; member of the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors and a Chair of the Membership Committee; member of Allegheny County Groundwater Guardian Committee and Sigma XI.

Special Awards:

Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (National Award co-sponsored by CH2M-Hill and the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors), 1993.

1991 Water Pollution Control Federation Award for Best Student Research Paper in the Ph.D. Category.

William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1994-1996