Lutgarde Raskin, PhD, is the Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Altarum/ERIM Russell O'Neal Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM), where she has been a professor since 2005. Before this, she was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for 12 years.   Raskin is an expert in anaerobic biotechnologies for resource recovery from waste streams and drinking water treatment technologies. 

  

Raskin has been the research advisor to 22 postdocs, 32 PhD students, and 90 Master’s students. She was awarded the UM Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in 2017 for her outstanding role as a mentor. She received external recognition as the 2018-19 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Distinguished Lecturer and is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the International Water Association (IWA), the Water Environment Federation, and the AEESP, and has received numerous other awards. She was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021. 

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She received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Bioscience Engineering and in Economics from Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium. Her PhD degree in Environmental Engineering is from UIUC.