Dr. Doug Call is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at NC State. Dr. Call’s research group focuses on environmental technologies that recover or convert wastes into resources. These wastes include solid waste (food waste), wastewater, and gases (carbon dioxide, methane). His group focuses heavily on biological and electrochemical principles. Examples of current research activities include using molecular biology techniques to better understand and routinely monitor phosphorus accumulating organisms in waster resource recovery facilities, developing strategies to geneate volatile fatty acids and recover phosphorus during the anaerobic digestion of food wastes, selectively recovering metals and phosphorus from waste streams, and using bioelectrodes (enzymes or microbes) to transform carbon dioxide and methane gases into new products.

Dr. Call received a BS in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia (2003) and a BS in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech (2005). He then obtained his MS (2008) and PhD (2011) in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University. He continued as a postdoctoral scientist at Penn State until becoming an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University in 2012. He joined NC State in 2014. He teaches the undergraduate courses CE 373 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering and CE 378 Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, and the graduate course CE 573 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering at NC State. Recent awards include the (1) National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2020), (2) NC State Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology (2019), and (3) Outstanding Young Alumni Award – Virginia Tech (2019).