Christine Ogilvie Hendren, PhD, is the Director of the Research Institute for Environment, Energy & Economics and a Professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She holds a BA from Texas A&M University in Industrial Engineering, a Professional Master’s in Environmental Analysis and Decision Making from Rice University, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Duke University. After completing a fellowship at the US EPA within the National Center for Environmental Assessment, and working as a Senior Risk Assessor and Environmental Decision Analyst at RTI International, she returned to Duke in the role of Executive Director for the NSF-funded Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT). In 2016, she founded INTEREACH (Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub), a community of practice for people working across boundaries, now affiliated as a Special Interest Group of the International Network for the Science of Team Science. She served for two years as the faculty co-lead for the Team Science Core of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute and chaired the 2020 annual conference for the Science of Team Science. She focuses on developing and applying methods, models, and human processes to integrate and co-create knowledge across boundaries—disciplinary, sectoral, cultural, and geographic.
Paul Westerhoff is a Regents Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and a member of the civil, environmental, and sustainable engineering faculty at Arizona State University. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Professor Westerhoff joined ASU in August 1995 and was promoted to full professor as a University Exemplar in 2007. He served as department chair in civil and environmental engineering and was the founding director of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. Professor Westerhoff has a strong publication and research record, has garnered wide recognition for his work related to the treatment and occurrence of emerging contaminants in water, and has been active in multidisciplinary research. Westerhoff has received several research awards including the 2018 WEF Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal, the 2018 International Water Association (IWA) Fellow, the 2017 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) Achievement Award, and the 2006 WEF Paul L. Busch Award. He is currently the deputy director of the NSF-funded Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT).
Dr. Jacob Jones received his PhD from Purdue University in 2004, after which he completed an international postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of MSE at the University of Florida from 2006 to 2013 and joined NC State in August of 2013. Dr. Jones’s research interests include functional materials such as piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials, materials for phosphorus recovery, nanomaterials, the mechanics of materials, and the promotion of international science and engineering. Dr. Jones participates in and leads many interdisciplinary teams and projects on topics including nanotechnology, crystallography, functional materials in environmental applications, water sustainability, and healthcare. He is currently the Director of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), a Site in the NSF-funded National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, and the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, an NSF Science and Technology Center.
