Prof. Hogland became MSc of Civil Engineering in 1978 and PhD in 1986 at Lund University Sweden. In 1988, Hogland established the Waste Management and Recovery Division, Department of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University. Since then, he has been a member of several national and international committees in Urban Hydrology and Waste Management.In 2010, William Hogland became Professor of Environmental Engineering and Recovery, at the School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Campus Kalmar, Sweden and Guest Professor at Beihua University in China. During recent years he has been running the project “Closing the Life Cycle of Landfills - Landfill Mining in the Baltic Sea Region for future” sponsored the Swedish Institute which engages professors, researcher, students and companies around the Baltic Sea. During 2015 he got the Elsevier Atlas Award for “Research for a Better World” and inn 2017 his research project “Integrated approach for Industrial Wastewater and Stormwater Management in Wood-Industry Sector Phases I and II” got the honorable Sweden Impact Award 2017 in the category “Physical Sciences&Engineering”. In 2017 he became Guest Professor at Latvian University of Agriculture, Latvia.