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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For pioneering the development of biofilm fundamentals and contributing to their widespread use in the cleanup of contaminated waters, soils, and ecosystems.
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bruce E. Rittmann is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The research topics covered by Bruce E. Rittmann include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction, Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants, Environmental Remediation with Nanomaterials, and Algal Biology and Biofuel Production.

Prominent and recent publications by Bruce E. Rittmann include:

  • Host-diet-gut microbiome interactions influence human energy balance: a randomized clinical trial (2023), Nature Communications
  • Recent progress in treatment of dyes wastewater using microbial-electro-Fenton technology (2022), RSC Advances
  • Towards a simultaneous combination of ozonation and biodegradation for enhancing tetracycline decomposition and toxicity elimination (2020), Bioresource Technology
  • Temporospatial shifts in the human gut microbiome and metabolome after gastric bypass surgery (2020), npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • Using Microbial Aggregates to Entrap Aqueous Phosphorus (2020), Trends in biotechnology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Chen Zhou, Yongming Zhang, Yihao Luo, Min Long, and Songyun Chen. These coauthors have contributed to a substantial number of joint publications with Rittmann.

Bruce E. Rittmann has published extensively in several scientific journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology (29 publications)
  • Water Research (18 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (18 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (14 publications)
  • Chemical Engineering Journal (9 publications)

Throughout their career, Bruce E. Rittmann has received several recognitions, such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1995, becoming a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 with citation for pioneering biofilm fundamentals and their application in environmental cleanup, and being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Environmental Biotechnology: Principles and Applications

    Bruce E. Rittmann;Perry L. McCarty

  • A unified theory for extracellular polymeric substances, soluble microbial products, and active and inert biomass.

    Chrysi S. Laspidou;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Phylogenetic probes for analyzing abundance and spatial organization of nitrifying bacteria.

    Bruch K. Mobarry;Michael Wagner;Vincent Urbain;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Group-specific 16S rRNA hybridization probes to describe natural communities of methanogens

    L Raskin;J M Stromley;B E Rittmann;D A Stahl

  • Opportunities for renewable bioenergy using microorganisms

    Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Model of steady-state-biofilm kinetics

    Bruce E. Rittmann;Perry L. McCarty

  • A kinetic perspective on extracellular electron transfer by anode-respiring bacteria.

    César I. Torres;Andrew Kato Marcus;Hyung-Sool Lee;Prathap Parameswaran

  • Total Value of Phosphorus Recovery

    Brooke K. Mayer;Lawrence A. Baker;Treavor H. Boyer;Pay Drechsel

  • Proton transport inside the biofilm limits electrical current generation by anode-respiring bacteria.

    César I. Torres;Andrew Kato Marcus;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Capturing the lost phosphorus.

    Bruce E. Rittmann;Brooke Mayer;Paul Westerhoff;Mark Edwards

  • Selecting Anode-Respiring Bacteria Based on Anode Potential: Phylogenetic, Electrochemical, and Microscopic Characterization

    César I. Torres;Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown;Prathap Parameswaran;Andrew Kato Marcus

  • Evolutionary relationships among ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria.

    A Teske;E Alm;J M Regan;S Toze

  • Conduction-based modeling of the biofilm anode of a microbial fuel cell

    Andrew Kato Marcus;César I. Torres;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Diversity study of nitrifying bacteria in full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants

    Slil Siripong;Bruce E Rittmann

  • Microbial removal of hazardous organic compounds

    Hester Kobayashi;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Biological hydrogen production: prospects and challenges

    Hyung-Sool Lee;Wim F.J. Vermaas;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Evaluation of energy-conversion efficiencies in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) utilizing fermentable and non-fermentable substrates.

    Hyung-Sool Lee;Prathap Parameswaran;Andrew Kato-Marcus;César I. Torres

  • Oligonucleotide microchips as genosensors for determinative and environmental studies in microbiology.

    Dmitry Y. Guschin;Bruce K. Mobarry;Dmitrii Proudnikov;Dmitrii Proudnikov;David A. Stahl

  • Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants

    Wen-Wei Li;Han-Qing Yu;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Quantification of methanogenic groups in anaerobic biological reactors by oligonucleotide probe hybridization.

    L Raskin;L K Poulsen;D R Noguera;B E Rittmann

  • Trace organics in groundwater

    Perry L. McCarty;Martin. Reinhard;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Applying a novel autohydrogenotrophic hollow-fiber membrane biofilm reactor for denitrification of drinking water.

    Kuan Chun Lee;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Occurrence of disinfection byproducts in United States wastewater treatment plant effluents.

    Stuart W. Krasner;Paul K. Westerhoff;Baiyang Chen;Bruce E. Rittmann

  • Anaerobic degradation of halogenated 1- and 2-carbon organic compounds

    Edward J. Bouwer;Bruce E. Rittmann;Perry L. McCarty

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown Arizona State University
David A. Stahl
David A. Stahl University of Washington
Hyung-Sool Lee
Hyung-Sool Lee Korea Institute of Energy Technology
He-Ping Zhao
He-Ping Zhao Zhejiang University
Perry L. McCarty
Perry L. McCarty Stanford University
Paul Westerhoff
Paul Westerhoff Arizona State University
Siqing Xia
Siqing Xia Tongji University
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Albert J. Valocchi
Albert J. Valocchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark

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