Jeseth Delgado Vela. M.S.E. Environmental Engineering 2014 University of Michigan. B.S. Civil Engineering 2012 University of Texas at Austin

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1 Jeseth Delgado Vela Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan 1351 Beal Ave, 15 EWRE Ann Arbor, MI jdelvel.com EDUCATION PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering Expected December 2017 University of Michigan Advisors: Dr. Nancy G. Love and Dr. Gregory J. Dick M.S.E. Environmental Engineering 2014 University of Michigan B.S. Civil Engineering 2012 University of Texas at Austin SELECT FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Ford Foundation Dissertation Award Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, (declined) Best Paper of 2015, Environmental Science and Technology: Letters 2015 Presentation Award, AEESP Research and Education Conference 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow Rackham Engineering Award PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Delgado Vela, J., Stadler, L.B., Martin, K. J., Raskin, L., Bott, C. B., Love, N. G. Prospects for Biological Nitrogen Removal from Anaerobic Effluents during Mainstream Wastewater Treatment Environmental Science and Technology: Letters, 2(9): DOI: /acs.estlett.5b (Best Paper of 2015) Stadler, L.B., Delgado Vela, J., Jain, S., Dick, G.J., and Love, N. G. Elucidating the Relationship between Wastewater Treatment Plant Microbial Biodiversity and Pharmaceutical Fate. Submitted. Environmental Microbiology These authors contributed equally to this work. In preparation, draft available upon request: Delgado Vela, J., Dick, G.J., Love, N.G. Activated sludge microbial community and nitrifier responses to sulfide. In preparation, will submit June 2017 to Water Research. INVITED PRESENTATIONS Delgado Vela, J. The Impact of Sulfide on Nitrification in Activated Sludge and in a Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 13, PODIUM PRESENTATIONS (*Presenter) Delgado Vela, J.*, Wagner, B.M., Bekele, Z.A., Arcelay, A., Bott, C. B., Dick, G.J., Love, N.G. The Impact of Sulfide on Nitrogen Removal from Mainstream Anaerobic Processes using a Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor Borchardt Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, February 21-22,

2 Delgado Vela, J.*, Bekele, Z.A., McFarland, A., Arcelay, A., Martin, K.J., Bott, C. B., Love, N.G. The Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor for Nitrogen Removal from Mainstream Anaerobic Processes. 89 th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), New Orleans, LA, September 26-28, Delgado Vela, J.*, Martin, K. J., Beaton, N., McFarland, A., Stadler, L.B., Bott, C. B., Skerlos, S.J., Raskin, L., Love, N.G. Nutrient Removal from Mainstream Anaerobic Processes Using a Membrane Biofilm Reactor and a Granular Sludge Sequencing Batch Reactor. 88 th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), Chicago, IL, September 26-30, Delgado Vela, J.*, Martin, K. J., McFarland, A., Beaton, N., Stadler, L.B., Skerlos, S.J., Raskin, L., Bott, C. B., Love, N.G. Removing nitrogen from effluents of anaerobic wastewater treatment processes: Understanding control and operation through biofilm modeling. 250 th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exhibition. Boston, MA, August 16-20, Stadler, L.*, Delgado Vela J.*, Love, N.G. Elucidating the Relationship between Wastewater Treatment Plant Microbial Diversity and Pharmaceutical Fate Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference. New Haven, CT, June 13-16, (Presentation Award) Delgado Vela J.*, Martin, K. J., Beaton, N., McFarland, A., Stadler, L., Bott, C. B., Raskin, L., Skerlos, S.J., Love, N.G. Nitrogen Removal Downstream of an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for Domestic Wastewater Treatment. IWA Global Challenges: Sustainable Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery. Kathmandu, Nepal, October 26-30, Stadler, L. B.*, Smith, A. L.*, Jain, A. K., Martin, K. J., Delgado Vela, J., Puente, P., Cao, L., Frenette, S., Bott, C. B., Rauch-Williams, T., Shimada, T., Salveson, A., Love, N. G., Raskin, L., and Skerlos, S. J. Integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Experimental Research: Evaluating Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors in Domestic Wastewater Treatment for Energy Recovery. Borchardt Conference. Ann Arbor, MI, February 25 26, Moline, C. J.*, Stadler, L. B.*, Su, Lijuan, Ernstoff, A. S., Dapcic, A. D., Delgado Vela, J., Aga, D., and Love, N. G. Pharmaceutical Fate Under Varying Redox Treatment Environments. Proceedings of the 85th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), New Orleans, LA, September 29 October 3, POSTER PRESENTATIONS (*Presenter) Delgado Vela, J.*, Dick, G.J., Love, N.G. Clarifying the impact of sulfide on nitrification in wastewater treatment. IWA Microbial Ecology in Water Engineering & Biofilms joint specialist conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 4-7, Delgado Vela, J.*, Dick, G.J., Love, N.G. The importance of nitrogen and sulfur cycles during wastewater treatment. Michigan Meeting: Unseen Partners: Manipulating Microbial Communities that Support Life on Earth, Ann Arbor, MI, May 16-18,2016. (with lightening talk) Delgado Vela, J.*, Martin, K. J., McFarland, A.*, Beaton, N., Stadler, L., Bott, C. B., Raskin, L., Skerlos, S.J., Love, N.G. Advancing Energy Neutral Wastewater Treatment: Removing Nitrogen and Dissolved Methane from Dilute Anaerobic Effluents Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference. New Haven, CT, June 13-16, Stadler, L.*, Delgado Vela, J., Love, N.G. Elucidating the Relationship between Wastewater Treatment Plant Microbial Diversity and Pharmaceutical Fate. American Society for Microbiology 115 th General Meeting. New Orleans, LA, May 30-June 2,

3 Delgado Vela, J.*, Martin, K.J., Stadler, L.B., Bott, C. Skerlos, S.J., Raskin, L., Love, N.G., Nutrient Removal from Mainstream Anaerobic Effluents: Linking Biofilm Modeling to Experimental Design. 87 th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), New Orleans, LA, September 28-October 1, Delgado Vela, J.*, Stadler, L., Love, N.G., Elucidating Biotransformation of Pharmaceuticals by the Methanotroph Methylosinus Trichosporium Ob3b. Gordon Research Conference Environmental Sciences: Water, Plymouth, NH, June 22-27, Cook S.*, Delgado Vela, J., Stadler, L.* Advancing the Success of Engineering Service Projects from the Classroom to the Field. 86 th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), Chicago, IL, October 5-9, Delgado Vela, J.*, Stadler, L., Love, N.G. Elucidating Biotransformation of Pharmaceuticals by Methanotrophic Bacteria. Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP) 50 th Anniversary Conference, Golden CO, July 14-16, Stadler L.*, Stevens, L., Delgado Vela, J., Su, L., Aga, D.S., Love, N.G. Impact of redox environment and microbial populations on pharmaceutical biotransformation. 5 th International Conference, Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, July 7-10, FUNDED PROPOSALS AND GRANTS Linking Sulfur and Nitrogen Cycles in Wastewater Treatment Processes using Gene-Based Modeling of a Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor Integrated Training in Microbial Systems Community Mini-Grant Role: Wrote, presented, and defended proposal $10,000 (January 2017-January 2018) GOALI: Developing Sensor-Mediated Control Strategies that Allow Innovative Treatment of Nitrogen in Wastewater National Science Foundation PIs: Nancy G. Love and Charles B. Bott $330,000 (September 2014-August 2017) Role: Wrote and edited portions of the literature review and generated figures and tables Elucidating biotransformation of pharmaceuticals by methanotrophic bacteria Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant $1,500 Travel grants University of Michigan Integrated Training in Microbial Systems Travel Grant ($1,000) 2016 Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship (Gordon Research Conf., $600) 2014 Rackham Conference Travel Grant ($3,250) TEACHING Participant: Preparing Future Faculty Seminar on College Teaching May 2016 Participated in a five-week seminar covering course planning, inclusive teaching, institutional types, and student assessment. Leader: Metagenomics working group Sept Nov Led an informal group of graduate students and visiting professors through metagenomics analysis Exercises included quality control, assembly, annotation, and using high performance computing clusters. 3

4 Guest Lecturer: CEE 465 Environmental Process Engineering Jan Developed and delivered course material on hardness and water softening Peer Advisor Aug present Advised PhD student performing research on constructed wetlands Undergraduate Student Advisor Jan present Advised undergraduate students (three) performing directed research on low energy nitrogen removal Volunteer Tutor: Student Engineers Educating Kids Aug May 2012 Tutored a middle school student weekly through Communities in Schools Peer Assistance Leader: Women in Engineering Program Aug May 2012 Mentored first year female civil engineering students to promote retention SERVICE Member: Student organizing committee, AEESP 2017 Dec present Wrote successful proposal ($2,000) to support plenary speaker Helped with abstract organization and review (516 abstracts) Trainee: Integrated Training in Microbial Systems Sept present Selected to participate in interdisciplinary training program funded through the Burroughs Wellcome Fund which trains students in population and laboratory approaches, relevant statistics and/or bioinformatics, analytic techniques, and mathematical modeling. Member: CEE Student Advisory Committee Sept present Served as a student advocate to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Reviewer Environmental Science and Technology Water Science and Technology Michigan Journal of Sustainability Member: Ethiopia Michigan- Platform for Advancing Collaborative Engagement Feb June 2014 Working in interdisciplinary team to advance graduate education in water resources and engineering at Addis Ababa University (AAU) Traveled May 2014 to conduct research in partnership with AAU PhD student in industrial wastewater treatment Member: GrEENPEAS Sept Sept Graduate Environmental Engineering Network of Professionals, Educators and Students President Committee Member: Prospective Student Visitation Committee Winter: 2013, 2014 Helped coordinate recruitment of prospective graduate students Graduate Student Program Committee Member July 2013 IWA 5 th International Conference on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Assistant Project Manager: Projects in Underserved Communities Aug May 2012 Traveled to Patriensa, Ghana to implement Patriensa Pure Sachet Enterprises. Led the technical hydraulic design Project Lead: Mexico Computer Project, Engineers Without Borders - Greater Austin Aug Jan Implemented a solar powered computer lab for students in Ejido San Miguel, Coahuila, Mexico Director of Operations ( ) for the organization CERTIFICATIONS Certified Engineer in Training, Texas

5 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS International Society for Microbial Ecology Member since 2016 Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors Member since 2013 International Water Association Member since 2013 Water Environment Federation Member since