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Nils Averesch
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioNils is a Postdoc in the Criddle Group, funded by the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative. As member of the Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES) he focuses on engineering gas-fermenting microbes towards production of aromatic polyesters. Before joining Stanford, Nils was task lead of Synthetic Biology with Universities Space Research Association as an Associate Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center.
Nils received his PhD in 2016 from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, in Metabolic Engineering working at the Advanced Water Management Centre. He holds an engineer’s degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Biochemical Engineering, from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, having graduated in 2012. -
Laura Kwong
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioDr. Kwong is a postdoctoral research fellow at the interdisciplinary Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, where she also earned a PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering. Prior to Stanford, Dr. Kwong worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where she worked at the policy level on water quality standards. Dr. Kwong uses human-centered design principles to develop engineering interventions that address public health issues in low-income countries. As part of her extensive fieldwork, Dr. Kwong has lived and worked with project partners in Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, Mongolia, Peru, and Uganda for 2 of the past 8 years. She has also spent time learning local languages to facilitate communication with community members and collaborators. Dr. Kwong’s research focuses on quantifying children’s exposure to environmental contamination and upgrading the built environment to improve child and maternal health.
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Marlene Helen Kennedy Wolfe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioMarlene is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research uses environmental engineering, microbiology, and epidemiology to address complex issues in WASH and child health. She has 10 years of experience working on WASH topics in low and middle income countries and emergencies, especially in East Africa. During her PhD, she focused on the development of new approaches to assess exposure to emerging infectious challenges and interventions to interrupt transmission with a focus on handwashing. At Stanford, Marlene focuses on the relationship between WASH infrastructure in communities and institutions and disease risk in the local environment. Marlene did her doctoral training in Environmental Health at Tufts University, and holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University.
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Shiqiang (Nick) Zou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioShiqiang (Nick) is a Postdoc Scholar in Dr. Meagan Mauter's group. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg) focusing on nutrient-energy-water (NEW) nexus and development of sustainable technologies with minimized footprint. His research projects include osmotically driven membrane processes (water recovery and reuse), bioelectrochemical systems (energy recovery), and photocatalytic applications. With a dual-background in Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, he would like to contribute more on interdisciplinary wastewater treatment, water reuse, and multi-level resource recovery.
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Adam Zsarnoczay
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdam's research concerns natural hazards engineering in general, focusing on probabilistic hazard assessment; calibration and development of numerical models to estimate structural response, damage, and losses; and large-scale simulations to describe the impact of natural disasters on an urban environment.
