Associate Professor Mustafa Evren Erşahin graduated as an environmental engineer from the Environmental Engineering Department of Trakya University holding the first rank both in the department and faculty in 2003. He received his MSc degree from Department of Environmental Engineering at Istanbul Technical University in 2005. In 2010, he has joined the Sanitary Engineering Section of the Watermanagement Department at TU Delft as a PhD researcher. He obtained two PhD degree from both Istanbul Technical University and Delft University of Technology in 2015. He was involved in many research and development projects in the field of energy efficient wastewater treatment, innovative wastewater treatment processes, membrane processes, membrane bioreactors, dynamic membrane technology, anaerobic biotechnology, renewable energy recovery and biosystem modelling. He is the vice director of the National Research Center on Membrane Technologies (MEM-TEK) in Turkey. He got TÜBİTAK Incentive Award in 2020, and Scientist of the Year Award in 2020. He got German Water Partnership GWP Award in 2016 and Waternet Watercycle Innovation Award in 2017. Besides, he got the HUYGENS PhD fellowship award, which is one of the most prestigious awards given by the Dutch Government, in 2011.