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Caitlyn Butler
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs,
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, College of Innovation and Technology, Arizona State University, 2010-2011
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 2010
B.S., Engineering Science, Smith College, 2004
Team
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Research Fellow
Wastewater Surveillance cawatt@umass.edu
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PhD student
Nanoparticle diffusion
tonuh@umass.edu
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PhD student
Water Remediation + Resource Recovery
lmancilio@umass.edu
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MSc student
Biofilm Formation
ywang5@umass.edu
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PhD Student
rnnachi@umass.edu
Postdoc
Microplastics Removal with Oxygenic Photogranules
PhD Students
Raphael Nnachi
I conduct research in ……
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