Ben Stanford is joining the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering as a scholar in residence in the civil engineering area, bringing practical consulting experience to the courses he teaches.
Stanford earned his BS degree in chemistry from Warren Wilson College in 1997 and his PhD in environmental sciences and engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008.
He is now an associate vice president with Hazen and Sawyer in the Denver office, where he leads the implementation of innovations in water, wastewater and water reuse. He currently supports the applied research, water reuse, drinking water and wastewater process groups at Hazen, but focuses on utility innovation across digital technologies, treatment technologies and enterprise management.
Stanford has conducted a range of studies across big data/analytics, science, engineering and public health protection. He serves as an expert advisor to AWWA, NSF, municipalities and several other groups on emerging contaminants, cyanotoxins, chlorate/perchlorate, disinfection byproducts and control of legionella in premise plumbing systems. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, and his work has been cited more than 3,000 times in peer-reviewed literature.