Michèle Prévost
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Michèle Prévost (born 1955)[1] is a Canadian civil and environmental engineer and an expert on the treatment, distribution, and testing of drinking water. She is a professor in the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where she holds an NSERC Industrial Chair in Drinking Water.[2]
Prévost is originally from Montreal, one of four children of a surgeon. She was an undergraduate at McGill University, where she completed a degree in environmental science in 1979.[3] She received a master's degree in civil engineering at Polytechnique Montréal,[4] and completed a Ph.D. in environmental engineering there in 1991.[3][4]
Prevost began her career working as a water engineering consultant, and later as a research and development manager.[3] She became an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montréal in 1992, an associate professor in 1995, and a full professor in 1999.[4] She has held the NSERC Industrial Chair in Drinking Water since 1992.[4][5]
