Marcos Von Sperling

Marcos Von Sperling is a Brazilian professor in Environmental Engineering at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is known for writing some of the most influential textbooks for wastewater treatment in Brazil and other warm climate regions, known as "Biological wastewater treatment series". These books was later released under the Creative Commons license at IWA Water Wiki.

Von Sperling graduated from Federal University of Minas Gerais with a Civil Engineering degree in 1979. He received a master's degree in Sanitary Engineering from Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1983. He completed his PhD studies in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London in 1990.