Anna Kogler

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2023 - 2024 Academic Year

Field Testing and Business Models for Integrating Urine Valorization into Sustainable Sanitation and Agricultural Systems

Extracting valuable wastewater components can enable circular sanitation systems that address environmental, health, and economic issues in resource-constrained communities. Building on lab-scale research that informs process engineering, we aim to investigate implementation contexts and connections with agricultural systems to support field demonstration, scale-up, and business model development of waste-valorizing processes. We will learn about existing waste-to-value organizations, meet collaborators in Kenya with whom we can co-develop practical demonstration projects, and identify field sites for process testing. These activities will create opportunities for the Tarpeh Lab to pursue community-engaging research in Kenya enabling implementation of novel waste-valorizing technologies.

Anna Kogler,  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 

Anna Kogler is a PhD candidate in environmental engineering with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Stanford University. Her research evaluates the performance of electrochemical processes for recovering fertilizers from wastewaters to improve wastewater treatment efficiency and sanitation access. Passionate about mentorship and capacity building, Kogler mentored multiple undergraduates in the lab, organized internships for master’s students in Senegal, and serves Stanford teaching assistants as a Graduate Teaching Consultant at the Center for Teaching and Learning. She is a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, a Lieberman Fellow, and the recipient of the 2023 W. Wesley Eckenfelder Graduate Research Award. Kogler aims to work toward real-world implementation of the novel technologies she has investigated at the lab scale.

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