Lab Manager for Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Biological nutrient removal, ANaerobic AMMonium OXidizing (ANAMMOX) Bacteria, life-cycle assessment
Sample Projects: Semi-continuous stirred tank reactors for high growth-rate anammox, life cycle assessment applied to side-stream anammox
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Berkeley Lab Energy Technologies Area
ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas: Materials and manufacturing of electrodes for Electrochemical Water treatment, Iron-electrocoagulation, Electrically Regenerated Ion exchange with capacitive deionization
Sample Project: Reliable electrodes for capacitive deionization with sustainable materials, Removing silica from produced water to reduce fouling of membranes in desalination, Surfaces of electrodes in air-cathode assisted iron-electrocoagulation
Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow (Visiting researcher)
Energy and Resources Group /Institut of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Research areas: Ecological Economics, Water Justice, Water conflicts, Environmental activism, and Social movements
Research and Development Engineer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: Iron-electrocoagulation for chromium and arsenic removal from water
Sample projects: Arsenic remediation technology implementation in the Philippines, Removal of heavy metals in ash-ponds from coal fired power plants
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
Research Engineer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Infrastructure systems, especially water and wastewater; water-energy-greenhouse gas nexus; water conservation and efficiency; food, energy, and water connections; energy and environment assessment; life-cycle assessment
Sample Projects: Embedded energy and carbon in California’s water systems, Environmental Abatement Cost Curves for Urban Water Systems, Decentralized and off-the-grid wastewater system analysis, Food-energy-water (FEW) interactions at the urban-agriculture interface, and Life-cycle environmental assessment tools for water and wastewater systems (Water-Energy Sustainability Tool (WEST), Wastewater-Energy Sustainability Tool (WWEST), and WESTWeb)
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