Bader Al-Anzi is a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Technology &
Management (ETM) at Kuwait University and a visiting professor in the Department of Life
and Environmental Sciences at University of Alberta. He joined the Department of Nuclear &
Engineering at MIT, Cambridge, USA as a full-time visiting scientist from 2013 to 2014 and
the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a research affiliate from 2014 – 2020. He served
as the department chair at Kuwait University from 2016 – 2021. Having completed graduate
studies in chemical engineering from renowned universities, his research experience includes
produced water and wastewater treatment, desalination, two phase flow/aeration, corrosion,
bioengineering, air pollution control and solid waste management. He has authored many
papers, book chapters, one book, 19 US issued patents, two European patents and five nonprovisional
US patent applications some of which were filed in MIT. He was a judge, an invited
speaker and a chair for many international awards juries and conferences. He has also worked
in several governmental organizations that focus on water desalination and wastewater
treatment projects. He is the principal investigator (PI) of several national and international
research projects, including two on-going Kuwait-MIT desalination projects worth USD 5.5
million and 615K, respectively. He supervised PhD & MSc students from Engineering
Departments exploring unconventional technologies such as produced water from oil fields,
wastewater treatment and desalination processes individually and jointly with MIT and other
organizations. He was an MIT committee member for one of the PhD candidates at MIT. He
received several national and international prizes/awards as recognition for his work, and one
of his invention has been manufactured and certified by American Aerators Company in USA
to be used globally for water and wastewater treatment.