Faculty
Name | Title Sort ascending | School | Overview |
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Sara Lupolt | Assistant Scientist | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Sara Lupolt, PhD ’21, MPH, works to improve the art and practice of exposure assessment while tackling a wide variety of environmental health and food system challenges. |
Alexandra Maertens | Assistant Scientist | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Alexandra Maertens, PhD ‘14, uses machine learning to study how chemicals perturb cellular signaling and cause toxicity, and how to design safer chemicals. |
Melissa Hopkins | Assistant Scientist | Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
Brent Kim | Assistant Scientist | Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
Kaitlyn Harper | Assistant Scientist | Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
Diane Meyer | Assistant Scientist | Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
Mahdi Mehrtash | Assistant Research Professor | Whiting School of Engineering | Using the concept of stochastic and global optimization, Mahdi Mehrtash addresses power and energy system problems such as power system expansion planning, integration of renewable energy systems, zero-energy buildings, and future electricity markets. |
Ana Rule | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Ana Rule, PhD ’05, MHS '98, focuses on the development and evaluation of novel sampling and analysis strategies for assessments of exposure to biological aerosols, e-cigarette aerosols, and particulate matter. |
Genee Smith | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Genee Smith, MSPH, PhD, is passionate about using her training in environmental epidemiology exposure assessment and spatial analysis to promote environmental justice and alleviate placed-based health disparities. |
Fenna Sillé | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Fenna Sillé, PhD, studies how environmental exposures change the immune system and increase the risk of respiratory infections and lung cancer. |
Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, PhD, MSc, applies exposure science and environmental epidemiology to study chemical exposures’ health effects in underrepresented populations. |
Shima Hamidi | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Shima Hamidi, PhD, MSc, is a transportation planner and smart growth advocate with expertise in measuring urban form and its quality of life impacts. |
Louis Fazen | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Louis Fazen, MPH, PhD, MD, is an occupational medicine physician interested in preventing occupational illness and enabling workers to achieve better health outcomes. |
Scot Miller | Assistant Professor | Whiting School of Engineering | Scot Miller combines satellite data and statistics to understand greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. |
Carsten Prasse | Assistant Professor | Whiting School of Engineering | Carsten's research focuses on the occurrence and fate of organic contaminants in the urban water cycle and their impact on environmental and human health. |
Sarah Preheim | Assistant Professor | Whiting School of Engineering | Sarah studies the microorganisms and environmental drivers of impairments to inland and coastal water bodies such as oxygen depletion and algal blooms. |
Lena Smirnova | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Lena Smirnova, PhD, researches the development of new methodologies for developmental neurotoxicity testing and understanding gene environmental interactions in autism. |
Ruggero Rossi | Assistant Professor | Whiting School of Engineering | Ruggero Rossi works at the intersection of electrochemistry, microbiology, and material science to achieve a sustainable energy-water infrastructure, and environmentally sustainable production of chemicals. |
Benjamin Huynh | Assistant Professor | Bloomberg School of Public Health | Benjamin Huynh, PhD, uses data science and AI to address public health issues related to environmental injustices and disasters. |
Shilva Shrestha, PhD | Assistant Professor | Whiting School of Engineering | Shilva's research focuses on innovative biotechnologies to produce bioenergy and biochemicals to substitute fossil fuel-based products, address environmental problems, and strengthen the bioeconomy. |