Background

I am a Senior Researcher and CEGs School Fellow in Environmental Engineering (School of Engineering). After a first degree and master in Analytical Chemistry (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy), I undertook a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University, where I started developing my expertise in microbiology and wastewater treatment systems.

In 2016, I was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, which brought me to spend two years at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag, Switzerland), where I joined Prof Kathrin Fenner's research team (Department of Envronmental Chemistry) and worked on modelling of process kinetics, and (micro)pollutant biotransformation in biological system under temperature stresses. 

Area of expertise

• Environmental engineering
• Wastewater treatments
• Microbial ecology
• (Micro)pollutants
• Biodegradation
• Kinetic modelling

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Research

Research Interests

- Bioremediation for removal of degradable organic pollutants
- Environmental microbiology
- Wastewater engineering

Publications

• Acharya K, Werner D, Dolfing J, Barycki M, Meynet P, Mrozik W, Komolafe O, Puzyn T, Davenport RJ. A quantitative structure-biodegradation relationship (QSBR) approach to predict biodegradation rates of aromatic chemicals. Water Research 2019, 157, 181-190.
• Igun OT, Meynet P, Davenport RJ, Werner D. Impacts of activated carbon amendments, added from the start or after five months, on the microbiology and outcomes of crude oil bioremediation in soil. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 2019, 142, 1-10.
• Acharya K, Werner D, Dolfing J, Meynet P, Tabraiz S, Baluja M, Petropoulos E, Mrozik W, Davenport R. The experimental determination of reliable biodegradation rates for mono-aromatics towards evaluating QSBR models. Water Research 2019, 160, 278-287.
• Batista AMM, Meynet P, Garcia PPG, Costa SAV, Araujo JC, Davenport RJ, Werner D, Mota Filho CR. Microbiological safety of a small water distribution system: evaluating potentially pathogenic bacteria using advanced sequencing techniques. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 2018, 18(2), 391-398.
• Bushnaf KM, Mangse G, Meynet P, Davenport RJ, Cirpka OA, Werner D. Mechanisms of Distinct Activated Carbon and Biochar Amendment Effects on Petroleum Vapour Biofiltration in Soil. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 2017, 19(10), 1260-1269.
• Vignola M, Werner D, Wade MJ, Meynet P, Davenport RJ. Medium shapes the microbial community of water filters with implications for effluent quality. Water Research 2017, 129, 499-508.
• Meynet P, Head IM, Werner D, Davenport RJ. Re-evaluation of dioxygenase gene phylogeny for the development and validation of a quantitative assay for environmental aromatic hydrocarbon degraders. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2015, 91(6), fiv049.
• Meynet P, Moliterni E, Davenport RJ, Sloan WT, Camacho JV, Werner D. Predicting the effects of biochar on volatile petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation and emanation from soil: A bacterial community finger-print analysis inferred modelling approach. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 2014, 68, 20-30.
• Meynet P, Hale SE, Davenport RJ, Cornelissen G, Breedveld GD, Werner D. Effect of Activated Carbon Amendment on Bacterial Community Structure and Functions in a PAH Impacted Urban Soil. Environmental Science and Technology 2012, 46(9), 5057-5066.
• Hale SE, Meynet P, Davenport RJ, Jones DM, Werner D. Changes in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon availability in River Tyne sediment following bioremediation treatments or activated carbon amendment. Water Research 2010, 44(15), 4529-4536.
• Christensen PA, Egerton TA, Lin WF, Meynet P, Shao Z-G, Wright NG. A novel electrochemical device for the disinfection of fluids by OH radicals. Chemical Communications 2006, (38), 4022-4023.