She teaches courses in Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Physical/Chemical Treatment Processes, Biological Treatment Processes, Water-Energy-Environmental Systems, and Advanced Water Treatment and Reuse. Her research focuses on water reuse and desalination, especially photocatalysis, membrane processes, concentrate treatment, and produced water reuse. She is the project lead and co-lead of the Engineering Thrust of National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center ReNUWIt, and recently selected as the AAAS Leshner Leadership Fellow on food and water security. She graduated from l’École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts (ENGREF) in 2002 with a PhD, and worked as a researcher at l’Université de Montpellier II from 1999 to 2002.