Sybil Sharvelle

Sybil Sharvelle is a Professor at the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University, where she also serves as Technical Director of the Spur Campus Water Technology Accelerator Platform. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University and M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on urban water management, wastewater treatment, applied microbiology, and the beneficial reuse of graywater and stormwater, with recent work on synthetic food waste valorization, membrane systems for methane generation from dairy manure, and net-zero urban water futures. She chairs the NWRI panel for Decentralized Non-Potable Water Systems and has led an NSF NRT-INFEWS training program on food-energy-water systems. Her collaborations span institutions across the US, Australia, UAE, Canada, Mexico, and Singapore.