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The QUESTOR Centre



The QUESTOR Centre:

The QUESTOR Centre at Queen’s University Belfast is an industry/University Co-operative Research Centre for environmental research and development.

QUESTOR is an international multi-university Centre; Queen’s University Belfast is the lead partner and other current academic partners are Dublin City University, The Stevens Institute of Technology (US), Dalhousie University (Canada), The University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and IWW – The North Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Water Research (Germany).

The Centre carries out a multi-disciplinary environmental research programme on behalf of a fee-paying membership that includes industry (both multi-nationals and smaller local companies), government agencies and local councils.

Research topics address the needs of the membership and include water and wastewater treatment, remediation of contaminated land, environmental monitoring and analysis, resource management and renewable energy. Each member company/organisation is represented on the QUESTOR Industrial Advisory Board (IAB).

The Industrial Advisory Board is an integral part of management of the Centre with responsibility for research direction and for ensuring the relevance of the research programme.

The QUESTOR Centre also carries out a very successful knowledge/technology transfer programme with member companies to ensure that the results from the research programme can be exploited commercially.

Contact:                                                                                            

Dr Wilson McGarel

Director

w.mcgarel@qub.ac.uk

http://questor.qub.ac.uk