PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Electrochemical Water Treatment
Sample Projects: Advanced Oxidation Processes enabled by cathodic hydrogen peroxide production and Mechanism of Electrochemical Organic Contaminant Degradation in the presence of halide and carbonate ions.
PhD
Environmental Engineering, Sedlak Lab
Research Areas: Areas of research/expertise: Water chemistry, trace organic contaminants, natural treatment systems
Sample Projects: Prado demonstration scale open-water wetlands for wastewater polishing, vegetated wetlands for wastewater polishing
CEE/Environmental Engineering/Water Quality
Research Areas: Stormwater Quality/Trance Organic Contaminants
Sample Projects: Reactive Geomedia for Passive Treatment of Organic Stormwater Contaminants
PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Drinking water provision in rural India, Development engineering, novel adsorbents
Sample Projects: An Ultra Low-Cost Approach to Remediate Groundwater Fluoride Contamination in India
Project Scientist and Environmental Health Researcher
Berkeley Water Center and the College of Natural Resources
Research Areas: Drinking water supply and treatment in rural areas; Water and development policy; Environmental Health; Indicator design and evaluation (and poverty metrics); China
Sample Projects: Recreational water quality & environmental health in the Philippines, Berkeley/China-CDC Program for Water & Health (multiple ongoing and planned projects), Evaluating Household Water Treatment in Rural China, The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) with the United Nation’s IFAD
PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Drinking water treatment technologies for low-income regions in the US, iron electrocoagulation, environmental justice, inorganic contaminants, scaling up technologies
PhD
Energy and Resources Group
Research Areas: Water recycling, decision-making about water infrastructure, science communication
Sample Projects: Beyond User Acceptance: A legitimacy framework for potable water reuse in California; Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Sustainable Nutrient Management
PhD
Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate/Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Water/Wastewater infrastructure management, Decentralized water reuse assessment, Life-cycle assessment, Environmental and economic assessment, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Decision-making tools
Sample Projects: Feasibility assessment of the off-the-grid water/wastewater infrastructure
Postdoctoral Researcher
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Research areas: Spatially and temporally explicit analyses pertaining to coastal communities and water quality parameters, effects of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) on benthic communities
Sample projects: Effects of SGD on community composition and productivity of coral reefs, SGD-derived nutrient uptake in coastal ecosystems, decadal and inter-island community assessments of Hawaii’s intertidal ecosystems, building undergraduate level marine- and field-based research curricula and programs
PhD
PhD
Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Wastewater reuse; environmental microbiology; biological stability of drinking water; flow cytometry
Sample Projects: Impact of wastewater advanced treatment processes on the microbiology of direct potable reuse systems
Postdoctoral Researcher
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Nutrient management, water, and sanitation in low and middle-income countries
Sample projects: NSF InFEWS project on recovery of nutrients from concentrated waste streams and production of fertilizer products
PhD Student
Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Treatment wetlands, water reuse, brine management, photochemistry
Sample projects: Treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate from potable water reuse
Postdoctoral Researcher
Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Environmental chemistry; water quality; organic pollutant fate in underground and aquatic environments; transport and adsorption mechanisms; soil remediation
Sample Projects: Stormwater Capture and Reuse: Methodologies, models, and materials for predictable removal of chemicals from stormwater during distributed recharge