Philippe Van Cappellen

Philippe Van Cappellen joined the University of Waterloo as the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ecohydrology in 2011. He was previously the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Global Environmental Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA, and a Professor of Geochemistry at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Van Cappellen obtained his BSc and MSc in geology and mineralogy from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and his PhD in geochemistry from Yale University in the USA. Dr. Van Cappellen’s research encompasses investigations of the environmental health of soils, rivers, lakes, and coastal environments, the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nutrients and metals, and global environmental change. Van Cappellen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2015, he received the Science Innovation Award and Werner Stumm Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry, and in 2007, the André Dumont medal of Geologica Belgica.