Marcus Lira has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His master’s thesis focused on the recovery of winery wastewater for drip irrigation through the use of a bench-scale ultrafiltration membrane system. His research looked to determine if the UF effluent met regulation standards for crop…

Sofia Martinez has a B.S in Environmental Engineering from Drexel University. For her senior design project, she produced a sustainable landfill management strategy for a retired impoundment formerly belonging to DuPont, aiming to reduce the flow of groundwater through an unlined landfill and prevent leachate containing organic material from mobilizing naturally occurring arsenic in the soil. At Drexel’s chapter of…

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.…

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…

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…

Estefania Escobar has a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. As part of her research work, she assisted in the construction and validation of a novel, low-cost IoT water quality sensor for household tap installation. During the large-scale deployment of these sensors in Ann Arbor, MI, she was responsible for monitoring and analyzing the drinking…

Jacob Newman has a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining Trussell Technologies in 2020, Mr. Newman has worked on projects related to drinking water treatment, potable and non-potable reuse, and desalination. His select project experience includes regulatory support for free…

Andrew Rudchenko has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining Trussell, he worked at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, providing regulatory oversight on soil and groundwater remediation projects. At Trussell, Mr. Rudchenko supports full-scale and pilot-scale testing in the…

Ms. Teresa Venezia has a B.S and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University La Sapienza and a M.A. in Governance, Auditing and Control Systems from the University of Roma Tre, both in Rome, Italy. She has extensive experience in pilot testing for water reuse and reclamation applications, particularly testing the effect of ozone pretreatment of secondary effluent on…

Bryan Trussell has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Trussell is a registered Civil Engineer in the State of California with more than nineteen years of work experience. Bryan worked for nine years with Los Angeles Sanitation, bringing valuable insight…