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…

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…

Kaitlyn Chin has a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. While at U of M, she assisted two PhD students on investigating virus fate in water matrices and predictive modeling of virus inactivation by UV disinfection. Her previous research involved exploring methods and analysis of detecting SARS-CoV-2 in daily wastewater samples to predict trends using…

Nicholas Babcock has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northern Arizona University and a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mr. Babcock’s previous work includes firsthand experience with conventional and advanced wastewater treatment processes including ozone-biofiltration and reverse osmosis piloting. He currently assists with multiple water reuse projects at Trussell Tech including the…

Mitchel (Mitch) Bartolo has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.S.E. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His master’s thesis work investigated the use of enhanced coagulation for the removal of naturally occurring fluoride and organic matter from drinking water sources. Throughout Mr. Bartolo’s…

Rodrigo Tackaert is a registered Civil Engineer in the State of California, a certified Grade III Wastewater Operator, and certified Grade V Advanced Water Treatment Operator, with six years of experience. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego and a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Mr.…

Aviv Kolakovsky has a B.S. in Biotechnology from Mikhmoret School of Marine Sciences, Israel and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University. His work experience at Trussell Tech includes operation and maintenance of various water reuse demonstration facilities and pilots; design, construction and testing of water treatment pilots for several research projects; project engineer on design and…

Elise Chen has a B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a registered Civil Engineer in the State of California. Since joining Trussell Technologies in 2014, Ms. Chen has worked in the field on numerous demonstration and full-scale Advanced Water Treatment (AWT) facilities in the Southern California area. Ms. Chen…

Brett Faulkner has a B.S in Civil Engineering from University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University. Mr. Faulkner is a registered professional engineer in the state of California with over 12 years of professional experience. Mr. Faulkner operated the City of San Diego’s Pure Water Demonstration Facility (PWDF) as a certified Grade…

Luciana Pereyra has a B.S. in Food Engineering from National University of Mar del Plata and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. She performed her doctoral research on the biomolecular characterization of the microbial communities responsible for the remediation of mining-influenced water in passive anaerobic treatment systems. An important contribution of her research was the development of…