Ameet Pinto

Ameet Pinto
http://www.pintolab.com/
Environmental Engineering
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Ameet Pinto

Associate Professor
Carlton S. Wilder Early-Career Professor
Email Address
ameet.pinto@ce.gatech.edu
Telephone
404.385.4579
Office Building
Ford Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) Building
Office Room Number
3226
Biography

Dr Ameet Pinto is an Environmental Engineer and Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Ameet is a Chemical Engineer from the Institute of Chemical Technology (University of Mumbai) with post-graduate degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alaska (2005) and Virginia Tech, USA (2009). Their research has received support and recognition through prestigious grants and awards like EPSRC’s Bright IDEAS Award in 2015 in the UK, the NSF CAREER and ISME/IWA Rising Star Awards in 2018, Paul L Busch Award for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research in 2019, and the IWA MEWE Mid-Career Award in 2023. They were inducted as a Fellow of the International Water Association in 2024. Their research focuses on the development and application of state-of-the-art molecular and modelling tools to monitor and manage the microbiology of drinking water systems to improve the sustainability of treatment processes and enhance the safety and security of drinking water.

Research
  • Drinking water
  • Wastewater
  • Microbiome
  • Microbial ecology
  • Computational biology
  • Public health
Education
  • B.Chem.Eng ICT, Mumbai 2003
  • M.S. (Civil Engineering) University of Alaska Fairbanks 2005
  • Ph.D. (Civil Engineering) Virginia Tech 2009
Distinctions & Awards
  • 2019 Paul L Busch Award for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research, The Water Research Foundation
  • 2019 CEE Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Virginia Tech
  • 2018 ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award (Rising Star)
  • 2018 NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award
  • 2014 Bright IDEAS Award, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
  • 2013 First Grant Scheme, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK
Publications
  • Ameet J Pinto, Lutgarde Raskin. "PCR biases distort bacterial and archaeal community structure in pyrosequencing datasets." Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043093
  • Ameet J Pinto, Chuanwu Xi, Lutgarde Raskin. "Bacterial community structure in the drinking water microbiome is governed by filtration processes." Environmental Science and Technology. Volume 46, Issue 16.
  • Dai, Z., Sevillano, M.C., Calus,.S.T. , Bautista de los Santos, Q.M. , Eren, A.M., Ijaz, U.I., van der Wielen, P., and Pinto.A.J. (2020). Disinfection systematically impacts the drinking water microbiome. Microbiome. Vol 8, pp 42. DOI:10.1186/s40148-020-00813-
  • Cotto, I, Dai, Z, Huo, L, Anderson, C.L, Vilardi, K.J., Ijaz, U.Z., Khunjar, W, Wilson, C., De Clippeleir, H., Gilmore, K., Bailey, E., Pinto, A.J (2019) Long solids retention times and attached growth phase favor prevalence of comammox bacteria in nitrogen removal systems. Water Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.wateres.2019.11528
  • Kirtis, M.J., Emelko, M., and Pinto, A.J. (2019). Applying biotechnology for drinking water biofiltration: advancing science and practice. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. Vol 57, 197-204. DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2019.05.009

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Environmental Engineering Team Named Finalist in Nationwide Algae Competition
04 May 2023

A Georgia Tech team was one of the four top finalists selected to win $10,000 in the 2022-2023 AlgaePrize Competition. The competition is hosted by The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), in partnership with the Algae Foundation and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).