Water Science and Technology Prize

Eric Hoek, faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), has been named the 2022 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize laureate by the National Water Research Institute. One of the highest honors in water research, science, technology or policy in the United States, the Clarke Prize is awarded annually to thought leaders from wide-ranging disciplines and includes $50,000 and a prize lecture.

With a focus on efficiently producing clean water and energy through advances in nanomaterials, membrane technologies and electrochemistry, Hoek's work at Berkeley Lab includes collaboration with research partner Robert Kostecki and colleagues at the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division on a number of strategic initiatives. These include the Water-Energy Nexus, which seeks to lead the U.S. transition to more resilient coupled water-energy systems. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and has filed over 70 patents globally.

Hoek will receive the Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Water Science and Technology and give the 2022 Clarke Prize Lecture at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, California, on October 22.