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Aidan Hasegawa

Aidan Hasegawa (EIT) has a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, and a M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. During his graduate degree, Aidan was involved in Gadgil Lab for Energy & Water Research where he researched low-cost phosphorus extraction from synthetic urine using electrocoagulation with various electrode configurations.…
Julie Fasolas
September 29, 2023

Brandon Cruz

Brandon Cruz has a B.S in Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University and a M.S in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. During his undergraduate degree, he was a member of the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment center where he assisted research on nanoparticle-enabled optical fibers. Here, he performed experiments on UV microbial inactivation via chemical…
Julie Fasolas
August 21, 2023

Oliver Reynolds

Oliver Reynolds has a B.S. in Civil Engineering – Environmental from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. While at Cal Poly Pomona Oliver completed his senior project on environmental remediation of surface water bodies in California. He helped research and design an integrated solution of floating islands and bioretention basins to remove excess nutrients from surface water bodies and improve water…
Julie Fasolas
August 21, 2023

Emily Townsend

Emily Townsend has a B.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Southern California. While pursuing her master’s degree, Emily worked in the Marine Trace Element Laboratory (MTEL) at USC and investigated the biogeochemical cycling of important trace metal nutrients, like iron, cadmium, and zinc, throughout the global…
Julie Fasolas
July 7, 2023

Zakiyyah Brown

Zakiyyah Brown has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from University of Southern California. Their research background includes investigation of disinfection byproducts formation during advanced wastewater treatment for potable reuse. Using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, Zakiyyah conducted quality control and assurance of total organic halogen…
Julie Fasolas
February 14, 2023

Niloufar Gharoon Dastjerdi

Niloufar Gharoon's expertise includes viral RNA monitoring and quantification across the water reclamation facility and sewer systems (wastewater-based epidemiology), report development for public health official use and local agencies, soil columns design and operation to assess the soil aquifer treatment capability for nutrients and viral removal, disinfection by-products monitoring, including THMs and HAAs at drinking water distribution networks; organic matter…
Julie Fasolas
February 14, 2023

Wen Cong

Dr. Wen Cong (E.I.T.) has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Zhejiang University, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on Water Quality Engineering. She has extensive research experience on drinking water disinfection, with a focus on viruses. She performed studies on Coxsackievirus, Human Adenovirus, and Bacteriophage PR772, about their inactivation kinetics…
Paula Moore
January 26, 2023

Ben Christensen

Ben Christensen has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. While at Cal Poly, Ben aided in a bench scale forward osmosis desalination study and made contributions to an algae biofuel project. Before returning for the master’s degree, he spent time as a lab technician for…
Paula Moore
January 26, 2023

Tim Dinh

Tim Dinh has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His master’s thesis investigated the impact of nanoparticle incorporation on reverse osmosis membrane structure and performance. Mr. Dinh’s prior work experience includes three years assisting with wastewater discharge permitting at the Central Coast Regional Water Quality…
Paula Moore
October 6, 2022

David Aponte

David Aponte has B.S. in Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University. During his time at SDSU, he was part of the Water Innovation and Reuse Lab. He assisted in the research of EOC degradation rates in sludge from two lab scale parallel anaerobic and aerobic bioreactors, as well as helped to operate, monitor, and maintain the bioreactors. His current…
Paula Moore
August 10, 2022