Donovan Maddox Chair, Texas Tech University

Texas Produced Water Consortium

Danny Reible is the Donovan Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor at Texas Tech University where he guides the development of the Maddox Environmental Engineering Research Center.  Previously he was the Bettie Margaret Smith Chair of Environmental Health Engineering and the Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas in Austin.  He also served as Director of the Hazardous Substance Research Center/South and Southwest, a consortium of Rice, Ga Tech, Texas A&M, University of Texas and LSU from 1995-2007, and is a Professor and Director Emeritus from LSU.   He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, is a Professional Engineer (LA), a Board Certified Environmental Engineer and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “the development of widely used means of managing contaminated sediments”.  He was the 2017 Kappe Lecturer of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists and is the recipient of the 2020 Gordon Maskew Fair Award.  He has served on 7 National Academy of Science Committees leading to reports on contemporary environmental challenges and served on the Academy’s Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology.  His current research is focused on sustainable management of water resources, technologies and practices for the use and reuse of brackish and produced waters, and the assessment and remediation of contaminated soils and sediments.  He has authored or edited six books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters.  Research support as a principal investigator has totalled more than $40 million.