Tenure for Prof. Tamar Kohn
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Tamar Kohn appointed Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC).
Tamar Kohn’s major contributions concern the elimination and degradation of chemical pollutants and biological agents and pathogens in aquatic systems. She has brought significant results in her research on the disinfection of pathogenic contaminants using solar photo-inactivation, and she identified a “singlet oxygen” chemical substance that plays a key role in the neutralization of a virus in water.
Her proven expertise in chemistry, biology and photochemistry carries the advantage of being able to produce major contributions in this interdisciplinary topic. Its economic and societal goal is to improve the quality of drinking water through the disinfection of viruses that are responsible for most waterborne diseases.