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Researchers


Fuhar Dixit

Postdoctoral Researcher

Civil and Environmental Engineering

fuhar@berkeley.edu

 

Research Areas: Detection, sorption, biotransformation, and treatment of emerging contaminants

 

Projects: Assessment of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Factors Controlling Biotransformation of Cationic and Zwitterionic Precursors in PFAS Source Zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Minxi Jiang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Civil and Environmental Engineering

mj2770@Berkeley.edu

 

Research Areas: Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental & Human Microbiology

 

Projects: Multi-omics analysis for studying anaerobic digestion, fermentation, and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox). Novel sequencing technologies to monitor and detect metaviromes in wastewater.

 

 

 

 


Sooyeol (Suzy) Kim

Postdoctoral Researcher

Civil and Environmental Engineering

sokim@berkeley.edu

 

Research Areas: Wastewater based epidemiology

 

Projects: Evaluating robust standardizable methods for wastewater surveillance of pathogens andantibiotic resistance, Cas9 targeted sequencing for antibiotic resistance gene enrichment, Wastewater surveillance of antibiotic resistance genes across the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 


Anushka Mishrra

Postdoctoral Researcher

Civil and Environmental Engineering

anushkamishrra@berkeley.edu

 

Research Areas: Environmental Chemistry, Water Treatment Technology, Nanomaterial Development

 

Projects: Hexavalent chromium removal from groundwater using advanced reactive filter media.

 

 

 

 


Anna-Ricarda Schittich

Postdoctoral Researcher

Civil and Environmental Engineering

rschittich@berkeley.edu

 

 

Research Areas: Micropollutant bioremediation, environmental microbiology

 

 

Projects: Assessing PFAS biotransformation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Sarah Schwartz

Postdoctoral Researcher

Civil and Environmental Engineering

slschwartz@berkeley.edu

 

 

Research Areas: Environmental microbiology, microbial evolution, bioremediation

 

Projects: Microbial biodegradation of halogenated contaminants; radical enzyme biology for PFAS remediation