Linda Weavers

Linda Kay Weavers is an American environmental engineer specializing in water treatment, including the use of sonochemistry and ozone in water treatment and the study of emerging contaminants.^[1][2][3] She is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at the Ohio State University, where she holds the John C. Geupel Endowed Chair and co-directs the Ohio Water Resources Center.^[4]

Education and career

Weavers majored in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1992. She continued her studies in environmental engineering science at the California Institute of Technology, received a master's degree in 1994, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998.^[5] Her dissertation, Enhancement of ultrasonic and ultraviolet irradiation with chemical oxidants, was supervised by Michael R. Hoffmann.^[6]

She joined the Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 1998. She was tenured as an associate professor and given the John C. Geupel Endowed Chair in 2003, and promoted to full professor in 2008.^[5]

Recognition

Weavers received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2001.^[7] The American Association of University Women gave her their Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars in 2003.^[8] The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors gave her their Distinguished Service Award in 2012 and 2018,^[5] and named her as a fellow in 2021.^[9]