M. (Mariska) Ronteltap

M. (Mariska) Ronteltap

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Preventing Recalcitrant Organic Mobile Industrial chemicalS for Circular Economy in the Soil-sediment-water system Industry plays an important role in supporting the circular economy. To help Europe reach its ambitious Green Deal objectives, the EU-funded PROMISCES project (2021-2025) will identify how industrial pollution prevents the development of a circular economy in the EU and detect strategies to overcome the principal bottlenecks that impede reaching the targets of the European Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan. The project will develop new analytical methods and toxicological tools to deliver data on persistent, mobile (PM) substances in complex environmental matrices and investigate sources of PM substances released from soil, sediments, landfills and wastewater treatment plants and via urban runoff into relevant natural systems. PROMISCES will assess fate and transport processes and improve the assessment and management of human health risks.

Expertise

Main fields of expertise / interest cover:

  • Sustainable sanitation, resource oriented sanitation
  • Sanitary engineering
  • Nutrient recovery, energy and water saving and reuse
  • Sanitation in urban slum areas
  • Faecal sludge management
  • Treatment of source separated urine
  • Sanitation linked to food security
  • PFAS removal

Biography

Mariska Ronteltap holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland and a Masters' degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands. She also has a university teaching qualification (UTQ) from the TU Delft.

Mariska is involved in research (>2900 citations, h-index > 22) and education on MSc level (mentored >40 students) and PhD level (co-promoted 3 research fellows) and several online courses, and has been part of research and capacity building projects for both the public and private sector, all in the field of sanitary engineering / sanitation. Mariska works at the Water Authority of Delfland.

 

Memberships include International Water Association (IWA) and Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA); for IWA, Mariska is the Secretary to the Specialist Group on Resource Oriented Sanitation. Mariska is member of the programme committee of STOWA.

Mariska has published the following open access books:

 

 

  • Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis (2021). London: IWA Publishing. ISBN:9781780409115 (link)
  • Faecal Sludge Management. Systems approach for implementation and operation (2014). London: IWA Publishing. ISBN:9781780404721 (link) (Translated in six languages)

Main activities:

  • Post-graduate education on Sanitary Engineering (graduate level, distance learning, training and capacity building).
  • Research on Sanitary Engineering, particularly in poor urban settings and recovery of nutrients, water and energy (PhD and MSc supervision).
  • Projects in the field of Sanitary Engineering and Capacity Building.

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Research interests

Main fields of expertise / interest cover:

  • Sustainable sanitation, resource oriented sanitation
  • Sanitary engineering
  • Nutrient recovery, energy and water saving and reuse
  • Sanitation in urban slum areas
  • Faecal sludge management
  • Treatment of source separated urine
  • Sanitation linked to food security
  • PFAS removal
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Academic background

Mariska Ronteltap holds a Masters' degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland. She also has a university teaching qualification (UTQ) from the TU Delft.

Mariska is involved in research (>3000 citations, h-index > 22) and education on MSc level (mentored >40 students) and PhD level (co-promoted 3 research fellows) and several online courses, and has been part of research and capacity building projects for both the public and private sector, all in the field of sanitary engineering / sanitation.

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