Adam A. Atia
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Adam A. Atia, Ph.D., is a Senior Process Systems Engineer at KeyLogic supporting NETL’s Process Systems Engineering Research Team (PSERT). At NETL, Dr. Atia primarily leads the development and application of Water Treatment Technoeconomic Assessment Platform (WaterTAP)—an open-source modeling library for simulating and optimizing desalination and advanced water/wastewater treatment systems. WaterTAP builds on the IDAES platform, enabling rigorous, optimization-based models to support decision-making across R&D stages and derisking technologies to advance deployment.
Dr. Atia holds a B.E. in Earth System Science & Environmental Engineering from the City College of New York, as well as M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Earth & Environmental Engineering from Columbia University.