Linda M. Abriola is the Joan Wernig and E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown in 2021, she held the positions of University Professor, director of Tufts Institute of the Environment and inaugural dean of the Tufts School of Engineering. Earlier in her career, she was the Horace Williams King Collegiate Professor of Environmental  Engineering at the University of Michigan. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement  of  Science. An expert in the multiphase transport, fate, and recovery/destruction of contaminants in the subsurface, Professor Abriola is the author of more than 180 refereed publications. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including  the National Ground Water Association’s Distinguished Darcy Lectureship (1996), the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Project of the Year Award in Remediation (2006, 2012), appointment as a U.S. Science Envoy (2016), and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Water Prize for Ground Water (2022). Over her career, she has given generously of her time to numerous professional activities and advisory boards, some of which are enumerated in her attached short CV.  She has been a member of InterPore since 2015 and served as an elected member of the InterPore Council from 2017-2020. She is currently the InterPore Ombudsperson.

Dr. Abriola received her Ph.D. and M.S degrees from Princeton University and a B.S. degree from Drexel University, all in Civil Engineering.

My CV

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