Students
Kennedy Brown
PhD Student
Camille Brulé
PhD Student
camille_brule@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Closing the sanitation equity gap in developing contexts, Nutrient recovery from human waste.
Projects: Ammonium extraction from urine for fertilizer production
Georgia Cardosa
PhD Student
cardosa@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: PFAS, agricultural systems, water reuse
Projects: Assessment of iron amended biochar as an immobilization technique for PFAS contaminated agricultural sites
Anthony DeSalvo
PhD Student
anthony_desalvo@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: PFAS, Nature-Based Water Treatment
Projects: PFAS Removal from Wastewater and Wastewater Reuse Concentrate using a Subsurface Wetland (The Horizontal Levee)
Jonathan Gallardo
PhD Student
jonathan_gallardo@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Decentralized water treatment, EAOP, Potable/Non-potable Reuse, Analytical Method Development
Projects: Novel Treatment Trains for Premise-Scale Water Recycling Systems – NAWI
Denise A. Garcia
PhD Student
denise_garcia@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Wastewater surveillance, pathogen transmission
Projects: Evaluate robust standardizable methods for wastewater surveillance of pathogens and antibiotic resistance; Compare quantitative molecular diagnostic tools for pathogen detection in wastewater
Nicole Garrido
PhD Student
nicolegarrido@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: environmental microbiology, halogenated organic contaminant fate and transport, bioremediation
Scarlet-Marie Kilpatrick
PhD Student
scarlet_kilpatrick@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Nature-based water treatment systems, constructed wetlands, diatom mediated processes
Projects: Assessing the Potential for Nutrient Removal and Recovery from Varied Water Sources with Unit-process Wetlands, Treatment of Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Produced During Brackish Groundwater Desalination with a Nature-Based Treatment System
Joyce Kisiangani
PhD Student
joyce_kisiangani@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Reducing child pathogen exposure through environmental interventions
Projects: ChLorine to reduce Enteric and Antibiotic-resistant infections in Neonates (CLEAN) Trial and passive inline chlorination in Kenya and Nigeria
Vishnu Kottarick
PhD Student
Jeremy Lowe
PhD Student
j_lowe@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Global water, sanitation, and hygiene; In-line chlorination
Projects: Developing and scaling in-line chlorination technologies in India and Kenya
Andrea Naranjo Soledad
PhD Student
andrea.ns@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Electrochemical Water Treatment Technologies, Iron Electrocoagulation (Fe-EC) for Heavy Metal Removal in Groundwater, Synchrotron-Based X-ray Spectroscopy (XANES/EXAFS) for Solid-Phase Characterization
Projects: Design and Evaluation of an Affordable Electrochemical System for Hypochlorous Acid Generation in Resource-Limited Settings; Development of Low-Cost Electrochemical Systems for Hexavalent Chromium [Cr(VI)] Removal from Groundwater in California Using Iron Electrocoagulation (Fe-EC)
Allie (Minh-Anh) Nguyen
PhD Student
allienguyen@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Wastewater-based Surveillance
Projects: Pandemic Readiness and Equity through Virus Epidemiology of Wastewater (PREViEW)
Juan Sebastian Salazar
PhD Student
juan_salazar@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Environmental chemistry and contaminant fate, Radical chemistry in natural and engineered systems, Soil and aquifer remediation technologies, and In situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) of persistent organic pollutants
Projects: My research focuses on environmental and radical chemistry with applications in soil and groundwater remediation. I specialize in in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) for the degradation of persistent organic contaminants, particularly by examining the generation and behavior of reactive radicals in subsurface environments.
Jonathan (Jono) Uhler
PhD Student
jonathan_uhler@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Nature-based infrastructure for water treatment, redox chemistry of constructed wetlands, environmental geochemistry
Projects: Trace metal fate in subsurface flow wetlands receiving treated effluent and reverse osmosis concentrate, Sulfur cycling and mineralogical controls on contaminant retention in subsurface flow wetland sediments
Ananya Visweswaran
PhD Student
Li-Wen (Audrey) Wang
PhD Student
liwen.wang@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Environmental microbiology; Virus evolution; Wastewater surveillance of human pathogens.
Projects: Designing a bioinformatic tool for detecting influenza in wastewater for pandemic preparedness
Hannah Wharton
PhD Student
hcwharton@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Global water, sanitation, and hygiene, engineering education, antibiotic resistance, in-line chlorination
Projects: Soil-Seq bioinformatics module for high schoolers, Kenya Bacterial Strain Sharing project, Honduras In-line Chlorination project