Community Members
Workshop organizers
Derek Ho
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Samantha McBride
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ellen Kohler
Director of Applied Research and Policy
The Water Center at Penn
Jon Hawkings
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Clementina Mesaros
Research Associate Professor
Director of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Core
Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2025-2026 Fellows
Pawan Khanal
MES candidate 2027
Penn LPS
Tess Anh Thu
Department of Urban Spatial Analytics
SAS
Victoria Valvidiva
Department of Bioengineering
SEAS
Prajwal Poonacha P.B
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
SEAS
All participants
Samantha McBride
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
PFAS, microplastics, other emerging contaminants.
Detection, remediation, drinking water treatment
Derek Ho
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Microplastics detection, K-12 education programs
Ellen Kohler
The Water Center at Penn
PFAS, water policy and community engagement
Jon Hawkings
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Toxic elements detection, environmental fate and occurance
Clementina Mesaros
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
PFAS and other bioaccumulating contaminant detection and health impacts
Marilyn Howarth
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Environmental toxicology and community engagement
Jazmin Ricks
The Water Center at Penn
Community engagement, K-12 education programs
Elana Pyform
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Health impacts of emerging contaminants
Shu Yang
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Microplastics and PFAS remediation
Tony Sauder
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Water resources and water quality testing in low resource environments
Nathaniel Wei
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Environmental fate and transport in atmsophere
Ling Li
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Microplastics and PFAS remediation
Chinedum Osuji
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Membrane processes for remediation
Ani Hsieh
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Water robots for water quality detection
Douglas Jerolmack
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Environmental transport processes, sediments
Daeyeon Lee
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
PFAS remediation
Kathleen Stebe
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
PFAS remediation
Lorena Grundy
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Environmental & sustainability education
Paulo Arratia
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Environmental transport of microplastics and remediatio
Reto Giere
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Microplastics occurrence and transport, especially tire microplastics
Hugo Ulloa
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Environmental fate and transport
Timothy Maguire
Environmental Biogeochemistry Section
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel
Microplastics and PFAS accumulation in ecosystems
Gangadhar Andaluri
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Temple University
Advanced analytical methods for PFAS, microplastics, thermal treatment for PFAS, environmental fate and transport
Erica R. McKenzie
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Temple University
PFAS fate and transport in the environment, remediation of PFAS
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