Trainees

Leslie Arrazolo is a first-year PhD student in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering department studying electrochemical water purification systems. Her current focus is the study of catalyst stability in the electrocatalytic production of hydrogen peroxide for sustainable advanced oxidation processes. Leslie is very excited to be part of this project as it combines her interests in chemical reactions and public health.

Seung Hee Chae is a second-year PhD student in the chemical and environmental engineering department. Her research focus lies on the advanced oxidation process (AOP) for water treatment. Currently, she is working on generating reactive oxygen species (ROS) with nanobubbles to degrade 1,4-dioxane.

David Kim is a fifth-year PhD candidate at Yale Chemical and Environmental Engineering. His research centers on developing electrode and cell designs for stable electrochemical wastewater treatment systems. He is currently working on H2O2 electrosynthesis and electrochemical advanced oxidation processes that target chlorophenol and other disinfection byproducts.

Mathew Krick is a second-year MPH student at YSPH concentrating on Chronic Disease Epidemiology. As an undergraduate at Yale, Mathew majored in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and completed an Honors thesis studying splicing factor mutations in myeloproliferative malignancies. At YSPH, he has been involved in the study of environmental health exposures as well as the study of survival outcomes among brain cancer patients.

Sheng is currently a second-year PhD student in Chemistry at Yale University in Prof. Krystal Pollitt's lab (School of Public Health) working on integrating the exposome in a multi-omics framework to understand the role of environmental chemicals on disease using GC-MS and LC-MS. At Yale Superfund Research Center, he will be working to quantify 1,4-dioxane and co-occurring chemical compounds in drinking water and blood by GC-MS. He is interested in anything mass spectrometry, e.g. MS-based proteomics, metabolomics, and exposomics.

Fintan (Fin) Mooney is an MPH Candidate in the Environmental Health Sciences department at the Yale School of Public Health. Fin found a passion in critically analyzing geographies and health inequities while completing his Masters in Community Development and Planning at Clark University. Currently, Fin is using GIS methodologies to identify environmental and structural vulnerabilities to contaminants derived from Superfund sites.

Meet Yale Superfund Research Center's, Xiao Shi.

Anna Stouffer is a Master in Public Health candidate studying environmental health. She has a background in synthetic organic chemistry, and is interested in how environmental exposures disproportionately affect health in under-resource communities. Anna graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2022 where she majored in chemistry and minored in mathematics and visual art.

Yewei Wang is a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of Environmental Health Science at the Yale School of Public Health. She investigates the studies of DX metabolism and mechanisms underpinning DX toxicity and carcinogenicity as part of her dissertation project, especially the role of oxidative stress in DX-induced liver genotoxicity and carcinogenicity.