AquAeTer, Inc., Brentwood
Ms. Hoover’s work experience has included a wide range of projects including due diligence for property transfers, permitting activities, site assessments, and site closures for industrial clients. Her experience includes wastewater, stormwater, and indirect discharge permitting for small to large industrial firms, such as inorganic chemical, pulp and paper, wood treating, coal mining, and compressed gas facilities. She is a member of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Harmful Algal Bloom Working Group. In addition to working at AquAeTer, Ms. Hoover is a doctoral student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Vanderbilt University located in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research interest is in the development of resilient community systems. In particular, her research involves assessing the relationship between weather, water quality, and water treatment processes to inform decision making by water treatment utility management. Previously, she earned a B.S degree in Environmental Science and an M.S. degree in Environmental and Water Resource Engineering from Vanderbilt.

AquAeTer, Inc., Brentwood
Dr. Marotta is in charge of technical aspects of wastewater and air quality projects for AquAeTer. He provides a broad range of expertise in mechanical, nuclear, industrial and environmental engineering. His environmental experience includes facility and corporate-level environmental compliance responsibilities. Dr. Marotta currently directs design and mathematical modeling for air, water, wastewater, soils, and groundwater treatment projects. His nuclear experience includes thermal design and performance analysis for the naval reactors (RSPA), design and installation of emergency fill systems, reactor vessel brittle fracture prevention analysis and new reactor prototype concept development. These areas required extensive computer modeling using complex dynamic simulations and three-dimensional finite element analysis. Dr. Marotta has successfully facilitated high performance work teams within an established unionized manufacturing environment. His industrial experience includes several positions within pulp and paper manufacturing, with management expertise ranging from large capital projects, to plant manager, to technical consultant. Dr. Marotta is an adjunct assistant professor and teaches graduate level Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics at the University of Tennessee Space Institute.

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., Franklin
Dr. Pezeshk is an Assistant Project Manager at Civil and Environmental Consultants (Nashville Office) and an adjunct faculty at Tennessee State University. Parsa earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Memphis in 2015. His experience includes modeling, simulation, optimization, laboratory experimentation, and pilot-plant operation of wastewater treatment systems. Prior to working as an environmental engineer consultant, Parsa served as a natural gas pipeline inspector with the State of Tennessee.

Dynamita, France
Dr. Takács, born Hungarian, naturalized Canadian, living in France, has done a similar circle in wastewater process modeling. As principal developer of GPS-X, BioWin and in the past eight years his own new Sumo process simulator at Dynamita, he has close to 40 years of experience in process modeling. Dr. Takács’ interests are widespread from nutrient removal and recovery to phase separation, main and sidestream treatment and energy-efficient technologies. He will lead the group through the development of a virtual wastewater treatment plant from BOD removal to nutrient recovery using the Sumo process simulator.