Dr. Linda Abriola is the Horace Williams King Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. She received both Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Drexel University. An author of more than 90 refereed publications, Dr. Abriola is an expert on the transport, fate, and recovery of dense nonaqueous phase contaminants in the subsurface. Her current service activities include membership on the EPA DNAPL Source Zone Remediation Expert Panel, the National Research Council Committee on Source Removal of Contaminants in the Subsurface, and the DOE NABIR (Natural And Accelerated Bioremediation Research) Advisory Committee. Dr. Abriola has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Ground Water Association Distinguished Darcy Lecturer and the Association for Women Geoscientist's Outstanding Educator Award. She is an ISI Highly Cited Author in Ecology/Environment and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Email address: abriola@engin.umich.edu