Ongoing and Completed Projects
• PFAS in land-applied biosolids in agricultural settings: a mechanistic understanding on fate and mitigation (2024 - 2027)
-- Role: Co-PI; Funding source: U.S. EPA
• Assessing and mitigating PFAS contamination risks in surface water due to biosolids land application in the Great Lakes basin (2024 - 2025)
-- Role: PI; Funding source: NYS Water Resources Institute (WRI) and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
• PFAS Assessment (2022 - 2027)
-- Role: Co-PI; Funding source: USDA Economic and Policy Analysis Division
• Collaborative Research: ERASE-PFAS: Stabilization of Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances in Sewage Sludge Intended for Land-application (2022 - 2025)
-- Role: Co-PI; Funding source: NSF
Current and Previous Research
Area 1: Treatment of PFAS
Phytoremediation, Hydrothermal liquefaction, Stabilization, Adsorption, etc.
Area 2: Interaction between plants and engineered nanomaterials
Area 3: Transport and fate of engineered nanomaterials in water and soil