As a graduate engineer Mr. Brdjanovic started his professional career in the water industry in 1988 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was responsible for the design of drinking water treatment plants and water supply systems. In 1990 he joined the Institute for Water Resources Development in Sarajevo and managed process design on a variety of wastewater treatment projects. His international career started in 1993 with North West Water Engineering in UK, as a wastewater process engineer working on large wastewater treatment projects in the UK and the Czech Republic. Throughout his professional career, Mr. Brdjanovic has managed a number of large and complicated engineering projects, education projects and advisory assignments, often multi-disciplinary in nature and involving conflicting interests.

After several years working in water and wastewater industry Mr. Brdjanovic pursued an academic career jointly at Delft University of Technology and UNESCO-IHE where he received his doctoral degree in 1998. After spending another five years working internationally as a senior advisor for consultancy firm Royal Haskoning, in 2002 Dr. Brdjanovic started the second academic chapter of his career at UNESCO-IHE.

At UNESCO-IHE he has convincingly demonstrated his organizational skills and leadership capabilities in an academic environment. Dr. Brdjanovic has proved capable of the independent acquisition of project and research funds. He has initiated the development and implementation of innovative didactic approaches in education within the Sanitary Engineering specialization and the Masters Programme in Municipal Water and Infrastructure at UNESCO-IHE. Given the specific mission of the UNESCO-IHE and the environment in which it operates, Dr. Brdjanovic demonstrated the necessary unique balance of research, education and capacity-building experience and skills, and a clear view of the needs of developing countries and countries in transition.

Prof. Brdjanovic holds a zero professorial appointment at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences - TNW) and has built up a considerable cooperation record with TNW and Prof. Mark van Loosdrecht. Prof. Brdjanovic is further contributing to education and research within the TNW and Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geo Sciences (Prof. Jules van Lier).

At UNESCO-IHE, Prof. Brdjanovic has developed his own research lines, namely in the areas of advanced biological nutrient removal and activated sludge modeling. Prof. Brdjanovic is pioneering the application of activated sludge modeling in developing countries and countries in transition. His research focus is currently expanding into (i) urban wastewater management integrating sewage collection, urban drainage and wastewater treatment (and beyond), (ii) the use of seawater in sanitation, (iii) sludge management, and (iv) sanitation provision to the urban poor. Prof. Brdjanovic has sound publication record featuring recently published textbook on Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modeling and Design.

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