Richard Royer is an Associate Vice President at Arcadis. Rich has 14 years of experience in consulting on complex hazardous waste site remediation projects. Rich has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. His area of expertise in the application of chemical and biological principles to treatment processes, with an emphasis on emerging and difficult to treat contaminants. Rich’s work experience includes laboratory and pilot testing as well as full-scale implementations of technology. Rich previously led the internal environmental technical team for a large multi-national conglomerate including management of their in-house treatability laboratory. Rich has experience working with internal and external multi-national teams and is responsible for sixteen peer-reviewed publications and more than twenty external presentations.