Meagan Mauter
Engineer, Professor, EntrepreneurYale PhD | Engineering
Stanford | Associate Professor
City of Palo Alto | Commissioner – Utilities Advisory Commission
Water and Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab (WE3Lab) | Director
Professor Meagan Mauter is appointed as an Associate
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and as a Center Fellow, by courtesy, in the Woods Institute
for the Environment. She directs the Water and Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab (WE3Lab) with the
mission of providing sustainable water supply in a carbon-constrained world through innovation in water
treatment technology, optimization of water management practices, and redesign of water policies. Ongoing
research efforts include: 1) developing automated, precise, robust, intensified, modular, and electrified
(A-PRIME) water desalination technologies to support a circular water economy, 2) identifying synergies and
addressing barriers to coordinated operation of decarbonized water and energy systems, and 3) supporting the
design and enforcement of water-energy policies.
Professor Mauter also serves as the research director for the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a
$110-million DOE Energy-Water Desalination Hub addressing water security issues in the United States. The
Hub targets early-stage research and development of energy-efficient and cost-competitive technologies for
desalinating non-traditional source waters.
Professor Mauter holds bachelors degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering and History from Rice
University, a Masters of Environmental Engineering from Rice University, and a PhD in Chemical and
Environmental Engineering from Yale University. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanfor d, she served as an
Energy Technology Innovation Policy Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and
the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and as
an Associate Professor of Engineering & Public Policy, Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Chemical
Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.