Don’t miss our next Fall 2025 ChemE Seminar Series speaker! Professor (and Chair) Elsie Sunderland will be visiting us from Harvard University! Biography: Professor Elsie Sunderland is the Fred Kavli Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, where she has been a faculty member since 2010, and leads the Biogeochemistry of Global Contaminants Research Group. Her research aims to better understand how chemical pollutants interact with natural ecosystems and affect life. Her group quantitatively analyzes the entire exposure pathway for environmental pollutants to identify key processes that have a large influence on their accumulation in living organisms. Prior to joining the Harvard Faculty, she spent five years at the headquarters for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency working on regulatory impact assessments and developing guidance on how to best use environmental models to inform regulatory decisions. Over the past ...