William Tarpeh is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. We discuss a wide range of topics including contextualizing your research in the literature, PhD accountability groups, and the importance of mentorship in grad school.

Will is the Director of the Tarpeh Lab, which develops and evaluates novel approaches to resource recovery from “waste” waters at several synergistic scales: molecular mechanisms of chemical transport and transformation; novel unit processes that increase resource efficiency; and systems-level assessments that identify optimization opportunities. You can find more information about the lab at: https://tarpehgroup.stanford.edu/ or @TarpehDiem on Twitter.