I am driven to improve the quality of life of low-income and at-risk communities most affected by water contamination issues from manufacturing and industrial processes. In doing so, I have pursued research topics in the realm of water treatment technologies for a municipality in the United States and for small scale systems in rural Zambia as well as making fuel cell technology more economically viable to the mass market. In my current research I am developing vital skills, such as cross-disciplinary collaboration with chemical engineers, microbiologists, and water chemists, to develop a comprehensive understanding of the environmental behavior of novel nanomaterials. From this experience and from the immense knowledge and expertise in the Environmental and Water Resource Engineering program here at the University of Texas at Austin, I strategically positioned myself to develop economically viable hazardous waste remediation and water treatment technologies.
» Understanding the role of dopant concentration and distribution on the environmental behavior of Indium Tin Oxide nanoparticles by evaluating the electronic band gap energetics, aggregation, deposition, transformation, and microbial stress.
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