Rate My Professor Diederik Rousseau

As co-director of the Laboratory for Industrial Water and Eco Technology (LIWET), Rousseau's research interests include nature-based solutions such as constructed wetlands for sustainable recovery of water and nutrients, applied aquatic ecology, waste stabilization ponds, and algae technology. His work emphasizes optimization through experimental setups and model-based design, with demonstrations at pilot and full scale. Rousseau has supervised numerous MSc and PhD theses, resulting in 38 peer-reviewed SCI-noted papers, 8 book chapters, and 39 papers in international conference proceedings. Key publications encompass 'Model-based design of horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands' (2004), 'Contaminant removal processes in subsurface flow constructed wetlands' (2010), '3D model for a secondary facultative pond' (2011), 'Reactive transport simulation in a tropical horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland' (2013), and more recent contributions like 'Lab-scale evaluation of microalgal-bacterial granular sludge' (2024) and 'Microplastics in two different constructed wetlands systems' (2024). He serves as a regular reviewer for various journals, is the founding organizer of the WETPOL symposium series, and has participated in several conference scientific committees, significantly impacting the field of environmental engineering.