Vice President for Research & Dean of Graduate Studies
University of New England
Biddeford, ME, USA

Timothy Ford received his Ph.D. in Aquatic Microbiology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor.  He is currently department head of Microbiology at Montana State University (MSU), Bozeman, USA.  Dr. Ford also retains an adjunct appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, where he was an Associate Professor of Environmental Microbiology and Director of the Program in Water and Health.  From 1992 until 2002, Dr. Ford was a Faculty member in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Prior to 1992, he was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University.

Dr. Ford’s research interests have included source and drinking water microbiology, microbial cycling and transformation of pollutants, surface microbiology (biofilms), microbiologically influenced deterioration of materials, and microbial populations as biomarkers of environmental stress. He has both directed and participated in water quality related projects in the US, Canada, the UK, Honduras, Mexico, India, Russia and the Philippines. Current research projects focus on the fate of opportunistic pathogens in drinking water biofilms, epidemiological studies on water and international health and microbial interactions with pollutants.