Prior to coming to Tufts, Dr. Cápiro completed her postdoctoral studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, and B.S. in Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Cápiro’s research interests include applied environmental biotechnology, fate and transport of traditional and emerging contaminants in natural systems, development of innovative in situ remediation approaches, and nanotechnology-biological interactions in the environment. Her work is supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), including a study that won the 2012 SERDP Environmental Restoration Project of the Year.