Prof. Grietje Zeeman
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Grietje Zeeman, has more than 35 years of experience in R&D and application projects in the field of treatment of waste, wastewater and sanitation, with a specialisation in anaerobic treatment. Since March 2012 she is appointed as Endowed Professor in ‘New Sanitation’ at the department of Environmental Technology of Wageningen University and Research (WUR-ETE).
She initiated projects on Decentralised Sanitation, aimed at recovery of energy, organics, nutrients and water, from 1999 onwards. As an initiator and project leader of the, EET-subsidized, project DeSaR-phase-1, started in 2001 and finished in November 2007, and additional STOWA projects, she was able to develop and demonstrate that Decentralised Sanitation is a feasible alternative for conventional sanitation concepts. As a result of the scientific, technological research the DeSaR (Decentralised Sanitation and Reuse) concept was developed and applied in a new housing estate of 32 houses, in Sneek, The Netherlands since 2006. The concept is now applied in full scale at 5 locations, viz. a new housing estate of 250 houses, 3 office buildings and a school. New projects are under development.
She was and is (co) promotor of more than 25 PhD students and published more than 100 peer reviewed papers. The scientific research aims at further improvement of concepts and technologies included in ‘New Sanitation’, for a more efficient recovery of water, organics, nutrients and energy.
Grietje Zeeman is frequently asked as advisor for application of decentralised sanitation systems and as key note speaker at scientific conferences. Moreover she was/is in the organising committee and scientific board of many scientific international conferences.
She is chairman of the executive committee of the TCA (Technical Committee Anaerobic digestion) of the Dutch Water Network, member of the ‘koepelgroep New Sanitation’, advising STOWA on ‘New Sanitation’ projects and member of the theme ‘Separation at Source’ of WETSUS, European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology. Next to her work at WUR-ETE, she works part-time at LeAF BV, a spin-off company of WUR-ETE.
Recent publications
- Hernández Leal, L., Vieno, N., Temmink, H., Zeeman, G., Buisman, C.J.N. (2011). Occurrence of xenobiotics in gray water and removal in three biological treatment systems (Environmental Science & Technology (2010) 44 (6835-6842)). Environmental Science and Technology 45(1): 351.
- Kuntke, P., K.M. Smiech, H. Bruning, G. Zeeman , M. Saakes , T.H.J.A. Sleutels, H.V.M. Hamelers, C.J.N. Buisman. (2012). Ammonium recovery and energy production from urine by a microbial fuel cell. Water Research 46(8): 2627-2636.
- Spiller, M. J. H.G. Vreeburg, I. Leusbrock, G. Zeeman (2015). Flexible design in water and wastewater engineering e Definitions. Journal of Environmental Management 149 (2015).
- Tervahauta, T., R. D. van der Weijden, R. L. Flemming, . Hernandez Leal, G. Zeeman, C. J.N. Buisman (2014). Calcium phosphate granulation in anaerobic treatment of black water: A new approach to phosphorus recovery. Water Research 48(1): 632-642.
- Tuantet, K., H. Temmink, G. Zeeman,., M. Janssen, R.H. Wijffels, C.J.H. Buisman (2014). Nutrient removal and microalgal biomass production on urine in a short light-path photobioreactor. Water Research 55: 162-174.