David A. Sabatini, Sun Oil Company Chair in Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Associate Director of the Institute for Applied Surfactant Research, and Director of the Environmental and Ground Water Institute at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Sabatini received his B.S. at the University of Illinois-Urbana, his M.S. at Memphis University, and his Ph.D. at Iowa State University. He has been at the University of Oklahoma for 13 years. Dr. Sabatini’s research has developed microemulsion systems and separation processes for application in the consumer product and environmental fields, and has evaluated chemical transport phenomena in the environment. He is a co-instructor of the popular industrial short course on Applied Surfactant Science and Technology. He has edited three books on surfactant science and technology and has published over 70 peer reviewed articles on related topics. He has been on several editorial boards, most recently including the Annual Surfactants Review series (Sheffield Academic Press) and the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. In 1997/98 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany.

Email address: sabatini@ou.edu