Radha Kamineni (she/her) has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. As an undergraduate, she conducted research on the dissolution of the silicate mineral olivine in ocean water, using olivine-containing sediment collected from beaches in Hawaii. Her work focused on quantifying the adsorption of…

Omar Hassan has a B.S in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. During his undergraduate degree, he was a member of the Berkeley Water Center where he assisted with research on decentralized stormwater treatment. There, he tested the performance of different sorption and oxidation materials on the removal/degradation of…

Michael Karish is an associate engineer. He has a M.S. from UC Berkeley in environmental engineering and a B.S. from UC Berkeley in environmental engineering science. He previously did an internship with Trussell in which he worked on the day-to-day field work and the data analysis of a non-potable reuse pilot project for the East Bay Municipal Utility District. During…

Owen Zuidema (he/him) is an associate engineer at Trussell’s Oakland office with a background in Civil and Environmental Engineering, holding an M.S. from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley. With a passion for water resource management in California, Owen has experience in water treatment engineering, environmental research, and sustainable construction. At the…

Dr. Domènec Jolis has more than thirty-five years of experience in wastewater treatment engineering, with special emphasis on biological treatment. He has led numerous research projects covering many unit processes including primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment as well as anaerobic digestion and solids handling and has published extensively on the results. While working at publicly owned treatment facilities on optimization,…

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…

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…

Bryce McFerrin has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to returning for the master's degree and joining Trussell Technologies, he worked two years as a research and development engineer and six months as an operations team manager with Chemours.  His engineering experience with Chemours…

Emily Holland is a registered Civil Engineer in the State of California and has a B.S in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her master’s thesis was focused on nitrogen removal in wastewater using a process called bioaugmentation with a proprietary blend of microbial cultures. She operated…

Anya Kaufmann is a Senior Engineer and a registered Civil Engineer in the State of California. Ms. Kaufmann specializes in permitting, planning, and design of potable reuse projects in California. She has been instrumental in supporting the regulatory and permitting approach for the first two reservoir water augmentation projects in California: the Pure Water San Diego Program and the East…