Dr. Eric Hoek is a professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a faculty scientist in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also a Deputy Topic Area Leader for Process Innovation & Intensification in the US DOE funded National Alliance for Water Innovation and Director of the UCLA Water Technology Research Center.

Hoek’s research explores the union of membrane technologies, nanomaterials and electrochemistry for water, energy and environmental applications. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles, filed over 70 patents globally, co-authored books on Sustainable Desalination and Water Reuse and Oil & Gas Produced Water Management, and was Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Membrane Science & Technology, Associate Editor of the journal Desalination and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Nature journal npj Clean Water. Dr Hoek has also co-founded 11 technology-based businesses and advises several technology companies, investment funds and non-profits.