Dr. Van Cappellen’s research combines detailed micro- and mesocosm studies with field observations and theoretical modeling to better understand and predict how natural processes and human activity control water quality and the environmental flows of nutrients and contaminants from the local to global scale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Geochemical Society, and the President of the International Society of Environmental Biogeochemistry. He received his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Brussels, and his PhD from Yale University. He was a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States and Utrecht University in The Netherlands, before joining the University of Waterloo in 2011 as the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ecohydrology.