Prof. William A. Anderson, P.Eng.

Prof. Anderson (Bill) is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Over the past 25+ years, Bill’s research group has focused on a variety of areas including enzyme and microbial technologies, UV air and water treatment processes, antimicrobial materials, microbial contamination detection, and air and water pollution control, with over 75 resulting journal publications. His work in the antimicrobial space is primarily collaborative and focused on product and process development with companies such as Class 1 Inc and Aereus Technologies, and supported with funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). Bill is also a Technical Advisor to Genemis Laboratories Inc, for the development of a novel rapid detection assay for water contamination, initially invented by his research group.