Dr. Debora F. Rodrigues, University of Houston

Associate Professor, Civil and Environment Engineering

Debora F. Rodrigues

Dr. Rodrigues received her BS and MS in Biology and Microbiology, respectively, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Michigan State University in 2007. She was a postdoctoral associate in the Environmental Engineering Program at Yale University from 2007 to 2010. Since the beginning of her career at UH, she was the recipient of several National Awards, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award in 2012, the Inaugural Emerging Investigator Research Award in 2014 from the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization for the high impact of her researcher in nanotechnologies. In 2016, she received two prestigious awards, one from the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the C3E Research Award in the area of water-energy nexus and the Environmental Award honoree for the 28th HENAAC Conference. In 2017, she was nominated by a NAE member to participate in the Prestigious Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) program of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in US. The central topic of her research interest is in the Health-Energy-Water Nexus. Her research is multidisciplinary and involves environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, molecular genetics, as well as materials sciences and engineering approaches. In her research, the role of microbes in Health- Energy-Water Nexus is her central focus.