Students
Kennedy Brown
PhD Student
kennedypbrown@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), global engineering, in-line chlorination, antibiotic resistance
Projects: The adaptation of in-line chlorination to manual handpump systems and users in rural Kenya and Nigeria, Chlorination to Reduce Enteric and Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial (CLEAN) Trial
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 Kotta
PhD Student
vkotta@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Environmental Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Computational Biology
Projects: Investigating enteric pathogen transmission at the human-animal-environment interface.
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 situ chemical oxidation (ISCO).
Projects: In situ chemical oxidation of nonionic organic pollutants: Effect of soil organic matter and minerals on treatment efficiency
Jonathan (Jono) Uhler
PhD Student
jonathan_uhler@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Nature-based infrastructure for water treatment, redox chemistry of constructed wetlands, environmental geochemistry, Synchrotron-Based X-ray Fluorescence Mapping and Spectroscopy
Projects: Biogeochemical Controls on Trace Metal Removal in Horizontal Levees, Enhancing Denitrification and Trace Metal Removal in Horizontal Levees
Ananya Visweswaran
PhD Student
Yujia Wan
PhD Student
jasminewan@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Solar Evaporation, Resource Recovery, Interfacial Phenomena, Process Engineering.
Projects: Optimization of Solar Evaporator for resource recovery
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
Yaw Yeboah
PhD Student
yawyeboah@berkeley.edu
Research Areas: Microbial Ecology; Drinking Water Quality; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Projects: Treated Water Augmentation of Direct Potable Reuse Systems in California; In-line Chlorination of Compatible Infrastructure in Nigeria