MSU Research Foundation Professor Pouyan Nejadhashemi has been named the director of the MSU Institute of Water Research, effective Oct. 15, 2024.
The position is a 50 percent appointment. Nejadhashemi will continue to serves as a professor in the departments of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences. His work is also supported in part by MSU AgBioResearch.
As an expert in ecohydrology, which delves into how water interacts with ecological systems, his research uses leading-edge tools to model water use and address issues such as monitoring per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals in Michigan drinking water using machine learning.
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This story originally appeared on the Agbioresearch website.