Projects per year
Personal profile
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Award Date: Jun 8 2018
Research Interest Keywords
- membrane-based separation processes
- desalination
- engineering global development
- water and sanitation in emerging markets
- design ethnography
Fingerprint
The Fingerprint is created by mining the titles and abstracts of the person's research outputs and projects/funding awards to create an index of weighted terms from discipline-specific thesauri.
- 1 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
-
Recovering Salts from Highly Saline Wastewater
Wright, N. C. (PI)
LEGISLATIVE-CITIZEN COMMISSION ON MN RES
7/1/25 → 6/30/28
Project: Research project
-
Novel Architectures for Membrane-based Humidity Capture for PEM Fuel Cell Systems
Wright, N. C. (PI)
6/1/25 → 5/31/26
Project: Research project
-
KidneyX Sustainability Prize
Wright, N. C. (PI)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS
2/1/25 → 1/31/29
Project: Research project
-
NRT: Cultural Change and Social Equity as Drivers for Convergent Research in Water and Material Circularity
Novak, P. J. (PI), Arnold, B. (CoI), Keeler, B. L. (CoI), Smith, T. (CoI), Voorhees, M. H. (CoI) & Wright, N. C. (CoI)
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
7/1/22 → 6/30/27
Project: Research project
-
Multi-market pilot of low-cost, time-variant electrodialysis reversal desalination systems with optimized brine management
Wright, N. C. (PI)
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, US BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
3/15/22 → 6/30/26
Project: Research project
-
Circularity and Sustainability: A Course that Advances Critical Thinking and Teamwork via Art, Community, and Policy
Arnold, B., Lock, G., Goff, E. L., Wright, N., Weitekamp, M. B. & Novak, P. J., Aug 1 2025, In: Environmental Engineering Science. 42, 8, p. 329-339 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
In anaerobic reactors the microbial community structure depends on feed type, with no “keystone” species tied to COD removal
Ajayi, O. B., Arnold, B., Wright, N., Guest, J. S. & Novak, P. J., 2025, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 16, 1583463.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access -
Modeling the Impacts of Hydrogen Extraction on Anaerobic Fermentation Systems Using a Modified ADM1 Model
Song, I., Zhang, X., Ganapathiraju, A., Rai, S., Novak, P. J., Guest, J. S., Arnold, B. & Wright, N. C., Oct 10 2025, In: ACS ES and T Engineering. 5, 10, p. 2450-2460 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Prediction of gypsum induction time to inform scaling kinetics using machine learning and Smoluchowski theory
Abdelkawi, A. A., Lindsey, J. L. & Wright, N. C., Dec 1 2025, In: Desalination. 616, 119288.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Techno-economic feasibility of decentralized desalination in the Navajo Nation
Brei, M., Wright, N., Amrose, S. & Winter, A. G., Nov 15 2025, In: Desalination. 615, 119265.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review