Beatrice Cantoni

Since March 2023, Researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI). Her research focuses on current and future challenges in water treatment and the associated human and environmental risks, with particular attention to the impacts of emerging contaminants and climate change on the quality of drinking water and reused wastewater in agricultural contexts.

Graduated cum laude in 2017 in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, she obtained her PhD cum laude in Environmental Engineering in 2021 at POLIMI with a thesis on risk management for human health from emerging contaminants in drinking water. She completed a doctoral period in 2019 at the German Environment Agency (Berlin), where she studied the adsorption of PFAS and pharmaceuticals from drinking water on activated carbon, and at KWR (Netherlands), where she developed a probabilistic risk analysis procedure for human health. Research fellow (from 2021 to 2022) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of POLIMI, she worked on various national and international projects concerning the management of PFAS and emerging contaminants in the water cycle. From 2022 to 2023, she was a Post-Doc MITACS Accelerate at the University of Western Ontario (UWO, Canada) on issues related to the potable reuse of wastewater. Since 2023, AXA Fellow, responsible for a project funded by the AXA Research Fund on the effects of climate change on the water-food nexus.

Collaborates on numerous research projects at the national and international level in multidisciplinary teams. As an organizer of outreach activities, she is an elected member of the Strategic Council of the International Water Association (IWA) and President of the Italian network of Young Water Professionals (YWPs) of IWA.