Dr.ir. Bas Heijman is an Associate Professor in the Sanitary Engineering group of the Civil Engineering and Geosciences faculty. Dr. Heijman dedicated 30 years of research to innovations in adsorption and membrane filtration both at Delft University, as well as KWR. At KWR, he introduced ceramic membrane filtration and NOM removal with ion exchange to Dutch drinking water companies. At TUD, he started in 2011 with research on the removal of OMPs with high silica zeolites. This year, a pilot plant research will start at a waste water treatment plant based on this technology. Bas Heijman has more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals; his H-index is 35. In 1991, he started at Kiwa water Research in Nieuwegein, conducting research on the beneficial application of drinking water sludge. Other research topics included adsorption on activated carbon, ion exchange, ultrafiltration and nanofiltration. In 2003, he joined the group of professor Hans van Dijk for two days a week as a teacher and researcher. His main research fields are membrane filtration and new treatment concepts for drinking water production. In 2009, he accepted a full time position as an Associate Professor.