We welcome Dr. Elizabeth Tilley as Associate Professor of Global Health Engineering
Dr. Elizabeth Tilley has been appointed Associate Professor of Global Health Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. With this new professorship, ETH invests in the new field of global engineering science, which seeks to provide technical innovations to improve living conditions for everyone.
Elizabeth Tilley’s research interests arise from the need to find technical, yet socially workable, solutions to the complex challenges that marginalised people face every day in the Global South. Her focus is on sanitation management, which is one of the biggest under-researched factors hindering sustainable development in many poorer countries. Before joining ETH Zurich, she held the position of Senior Lecturer at the University of Malawi.
With a background in both environmental engineering and development economics, she will take a central role in shaping the ETH4D initiative to support research across disciplines and in developing new development engineering courses at ETH. We are looking forward to welcoming Elizabeth Tilley to the ETH4D community.