Women In Environmental Science & Engineering

Danielle Becker-Polinski is currently a Ph.D. student in Dr. Hollie M. Putnam's Eco-Physiology and Environmental Epigenetics of Marine Invertebrates Lab at the University of Rhode Island. Danielle is broadly interested in the ecophysiology within coral reef ecosystems and how global climate change and genomic processes influence coral population dynamics for generations to come.

Her fascination and curiosity with the under...

Dr. Lydia Jahl is a science and policy associate at the Green Science Policy Institute. There, she collaborates with other scientists, businesses, and policymakers to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in everyday products. Dr. Jahl is a chemist by training, receiving a BS in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research journey began in atmospheric chemistry, studying fog ...

Dr. Nevárez-Moorillón has been a full-time professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico, for the last 37 years. She graduated as a bacteriological chemist from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua. She completed her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of North Texas studying the bioremediation of soil contaminated with hydrocarbons, under the supervision of Dr. Gerard Roland Vela. ...

Sandy Castellano has a B.S. Earth Sciences with a Concentration in Environmental Science (graduated 2018) and an M.S. Sustainability Science (anticipated graduation Dec 2022). Currently, Castellano is a graduate student at Montclair State University and working as a teaching assistant leading two labs classes for introduction level geology. Castellano is a Latina in STEM and proudly represents Ecuador. Her family immigrated to the ...

Dr. Maddie Smith is an Assistant Scientist in the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Motivated by the loss of sea ice in a rapidly changing climate, her research uses observations and modeling approaches to understand how sea ice interacts with the ocean. Her fieldwork has taken her to the oceans at both ends of the earth, including participation in the summer leg of the year...

Dr. Francesca De Domenico is an Assistant Professor in Novel Aircraft Propulsion at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft. She has a passion for flames and sustainability and her research goal is to disruptively change the way in which we power aircrafts, to make them greener and more sustainable. Specifically, she is interested in developing airplane engines which safely and efficiently use hydrogen as green alternative...

Phebe Bonilla is a Mexican environmental engineer. She did her undergrad in Puebla, her home city, where she worked for CAISEH, a consultancy company dedicated to doing environmental impact assessments. After finishing her degree, Phebe worked at MAV Integral Engineering and helped design wastewater treatment plants. The following year, she undertook her postgraduate studies at the University of Sheffield, in the UK. After completi...

Constance Schéré is a PhD candidate at King's College London in the Department of Geography. Her research focusses on the effectiveness of Irish Sea marine protected areas as a sustainable biological conservation tool. Constance has a MSc in Biodiversity, Territory, and Environment (BIOTERRE) from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2017) and a MSc in Environmental Policy from SciencesPo Paris (2013).  She ...

Dr. Kang Lan Tee is recognized for her work in directed evolution, protein engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution and sustainable biomanufacturing. Her contributions to the field include new molecular methods, novel promoters, improved enzymes and enhanced microbial strains for sustainable feedstock utilization. In 2019, she was awarded the Global Challenges Research Fellowship to investigate the use of agricultural waste for b...

Katrin Steinthorsdottir (she/her) is a geologist who is doing her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (UBC) alongside working for Carbfix. Her work focuses on CO2 storage via mineralization in subsurface ultramafic rocks. She completed her MSc also at UBC on serpentinization and implications for carbon mineralization. Katrin grew up in Iceland, Malta, and the United States, and before moving to Canada, worked on volcano mon...

Luisa Diele-Viegas is currently a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil and the vice-president of the Brazilian Association of Ecological Sciences and Conservation. Her research interests involve assessing the impact of human actions on biodiversity, focusing on climate change and reptiles. She also studies the implicit and explicit biases in academia, considering gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality...

Dr. Lori Hoepner received her DrPH in Environmental Health Sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2015), her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from Tulane University School of Public Health (1995), and her BA in Biology from Barnard College (1994). With over 50 co-authored publications, her research is primarily at the intersection of environmental effects and prenatal/early childhood development. In ...

Dr. Maribet Gamboa is interested in biodiversity assessments by studying the evolution and function of genes of aquatic organisms. Gamboa's main goal is to find clues to adaptation and resilience to climatic change and human disturbance. Gamboa graduated from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela with a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and a major in molecular ecology. After that, Gamboa did two postdocs. First, in Berlin, Germany at ...

Dr. Ashlynn S. Stillwell is an Associate Professor and the Elaine F. and William J. Hall Excellence Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Her research focuses on creating sustainable water and energy systems in a policy-relevant context. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri (2006), and an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resou...

Dr. Natalie Hull studies water microbiology at fundamental and system scales.   Her academic background is in civil engineering (University of Kentucky, University of Colorado Boulder) and environmental engineering (University of Colorado Boulder), with post-graduate professional molecular biology and microbiome research (University of Colorado Boulder).  Dr. Hull leads the Water TEAM (Treatment Engineering And Micro...

Kaitlin Urso is an environmental consultant with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment that specializes in helping small businesses, specifically breweries and cannabis businesses, reduce their environmental impacts. Kaitlin's work to advance environmental sustainability in cannabis and craft brewing has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, NPR, Science Magazine, and countless industry publications....

Onita D. Basu, PhD., P.Eng.  is a Professor (Civil/Environmental Eng) and Associate Dean (Faculty of Graduate Studies) at Carleton University. Dr. Basu obtained her bachelors’ (Chemical Engineering (honours)) and masters’ degree (Civil/Environmental Engineering) at the University of British Columbia, subsequently hopping over to the University  of Waterloo to obtain her Ph.D  (Civil/Environmental Engineering). Dr. Ba...

Laura Guertin holds a Ph.D. in Marine Geology & Geophysics from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and has served as an Earth Science faculty member at Penn State Brandywine since 2001. She has received funding from the EPA and has been a PI/co-PI on several NSF projects relating to geoscience education and outreach. She teaches introductory-level general education Earth science, geo...

Dr. Kontou is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on sustainable and electrified transportation systems planning and management. Dr. Kontou’s research group develops quantitative models and data-driven solutions to emerging mobility challenges. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering, focusing on transportation syst...