Ron Faibish is a Project Manager and Developer at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) just outside of Chicago, IL in the areas of water production and resource development, nuclear energy applications for water and hydrogen production, membrane separation, and nuclear safety. Dr. Faibish has joined ANL after spending more than two years as an International Project Manager with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, where he developed and managed multi-institutional, multi-national desalination research projects using nuclear energy as the energy source. Ron had earned his PhD in chemical engineering from UCLA in 2000. He has authored several journal papers in the area of colloid separations, polymer science, membrane filtration, desalination, and surface characterization.