Team

Dr. Pickering is the Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice jointly appointed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Blum Center for Developing Economies. 

Daniel is interested in investigating how antibiotic-resistant genes are transmitted between humans, animals, and the environment. He previously received his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University, and his MS and PhD from KAIST, where he studied microbial nitrogen cycles in diverse environments with respect to greenhouse gas.

Heather’s research is centered around reducing microbial pathogen transmission through environmental pathways using a One Health lens. Heather completed her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley, where she focused on water, sanitation, hygiene and food-animal production as drivers of community-acquired antibiotic resistance. She received her B.A. from Kenyon College and M.P.H. from Emory University.

Michael is working on an ongoing research project in Benin and India on environmental detection of soil transmitted helminths. He is currently based in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Prior to joining the Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley, he received his PhD from E-IPER at Stanford University, where he focused on household and public sanitation services, policies, and child health connections.  He was a lecturer in environmental engineering at San Diego State University during 2020-2021

Suzy’s research focuses on using wastewater to gain information about the health status of communities, often referred to as wastewater-based epidemiology. Suzy completed her MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University where she focused on optimizing use of wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic at different scales of systems. She received her BS from Harvey Mudd College in Chemistry. 

Jeremy focuses on understanding transmission pathways of pathogens in the environment in low-income countries, human exposure to these pathogens and subsequent health outcomes, and strategies that can limit exposure to pathogens and improve health. He previously graduated from NC State University with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering. Outside of research, Jeremy loves being outside either running, cycling, or hiking.

Hannah is a PhD student at UC Berkeley. Hannah received her BS and MS in Civil Engineering from UMass Amherst, where she evaluated bacterial water quality from point-of-use water treatment for low income settings and researched pathogen transport in intermittent water supply. Her research interests focus on investigating pathogen transmission in low-income settings and the impacts of WASH interventions on transmission pathways. 

Denise is an MS/PhD student at UC Berkeley. Denise obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering at San Diego State University.  Denise conducted research in Tijuana, MX on decentralized wastewater treatment systems. She was awarded the NSF graduate research fellowship and hopes to conduct research on disease transmission in low-income countries while attending UC Berkeley.

Scarlet is an Epidemiology PhD student in the Berkeley school of public health also advised by Jay Graham. She is interested in a combination of disciplines, including medicine, infectious disease transmission, global health, and climate and environmental health. As an UG, she led the PARE project, studying antibiotic resistance in the environment and working to develop a usable test for college curricula which will analyze soil and water samples to map antibiotic resistance nationally. See pare-seq.com.