David Jassby is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University (2011), an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Davis (2005), and a B.Sc. in Biology from Hebrew University (2002). Jassby’s research is primarily concerned with the development membranes for the separation and recovery of valuable metals and nutrients from aqueous streams, membranes for desalination and wastewater treatment, CO2 capture and sequestration, and electrochemical processes.