Understanding and advancing the Water-Energy-Climate nexus is key to mitigating the immense threats of climate change and solving many of the related environmental issues we face today. Driven by our current linear carbon economy, abundant waste streams in wet (sludge, wastewater, runoff), solid (biosolids, biomass, food waste), and gaseous forms (flue gas, landfill off-gas, CO2) have accumulated throughout our society, presenting a need for advanced decarbonization and resource recovery tools that support a future circular economy.

Our group develops new environmental catalytic (e.g. thermal, electrochemical, microbial, and bio-electrochemical) processes that can upgrade abundant waste streams such as wastewater and CO2 into high-value fuels and chemicals while also recovering important resources like water, nutrients, and energy.

To that end, our group brings together researchers from diverse backgrounds to study and develop new materials, catalytic mechanisms, and process designs suited for environmental and chemical applications.

Overall, we aim to apply integrated expertise, excellent engineering fundamentals, and equity-centered values to advance scientific knowledge, develop transformative solutions, and promote an inclusive and innovative community that works together to build a future without waste or pollution.