Lehigh University

Michael S. German is a doctoral candidate in Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University. He was a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow to India where his research was titled “Empowering Women to Transform a Water Crisis into Water Business in the Indian Sub-Continent.” Currently pursuing his PhD under Professors SenGupta and Watkins, he has helped develop the resin technology within the SenGupta Research Lab. Mike’s findings in discovering social business models to tackle the arsenic and fluoride water crisis have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is applying technology and infrastructure lessons learned to the growth strategy of Drinkwell, a social entrepreneurial startup he co-founded with Dr. SenGupta and others, implementing the technology in the developing world. Mike holds a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Lehigh University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Maryland – Baltimore County.