Imre Takács

Imre Takács is a Hungarian-Canadian environmental engineer and process engineer. He is a founder and CEO of Dynamita SARL, based in France, and developer of process simulators and dynamic models for wastewater treatment plants.

Takács has made contributions to environmental engineering, with a particular focus on biological and physico-chemical water treatment processes. He is known for the development of modeling and software solutions for water and wastewater plant control and has overseen projects aimed at implementing progressive technologies in full-scale wastewater treatment plants. He has authored book chapters for organizations, peer-reviewed journals and his paper on the dynamic process model for thickening and clarification was selected as one of the top ten most influential papers for the ''Water Research'' journal in the past 40 years. He is the recipient of the 2019 Fuhrman Medal for Outstanding Academic-Practice Collaboration from the International Water Association (IWA).

Takács has contributed to the development of industry process software, including GPS-X from and Biowin. Additionally, he introduced Sumo, a third-generation wastewater process modeling software.

Takács initiated the WWTmod (later WRRmod) conference series for modellers. He is the founder and first director of the MEGA workgroup in Municipal Resource Recovery Design Community (MRRDC) at WEF. He has been involved in various IWA groups, such as the Task Group for Good Modelling Practice (GMP) and Good Biofilm Reactor Modelling Practice, and has been serving on many scientific committees including the scientific committee for the IWA Specialised Conference on Design, Operation, and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants. Provided by Wikipedia