Juliana Morera
Center for the Environment Intern
Class of 2026, Environmental Analysis/Anthropology
Juliana Morera is a sophomore double majoring in Environmental Analysis and Anthropology: Global Health and Environment with a minor in Writing. She is the Executive of Community Engagement for SEEDS STL, to encourage equity in ecology, and is excited to encourage equity around climate and environmental engagement at WashU. They are passionate about sustainability and […]
Ramesh Agarwal
The William Palm Professor of Engineering; Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Sustainable Ground and Air Transportation, Sustainable Fuels, Renewable Energies - Wind, Solar & Biomass, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Chemical Looping Combustion
Nia Beane
Center for the Environment Intern
Class of 2025, Environmental Analysis/Film
Nia is a junior from Belize majoring in Environmental Analysis and Film and Media Studies. She is passionate about the power of individual action as well as government action, environmental justice, energy conservation, habitat conservation, and the connection between people, animals, and the planet. She is involved with sustainability on campus through being a WashU […]
Dan Giammar
Director of the Center for the Environment
Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering
Education PhD, California Institute of Technology, 2001MS, California Institute of Technology, 1998BS, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996 Research areas EnergyEnvironmental EngineeringMaterials for Energy and Environmental Technologies Research Dan Giammar’s research focuses on chemical reactions that affect the fate and transport of heavy metals, radionuclides, and other inorganic constituents in natural and engineered aquatic systems. He is […]
Alex Morales-Heil
Program Manager
Alex Morales-Heil is a program manager for the Center for the Environment where she supports community engaged research, undergraduate research programming, and an educational coordinating committee. Alex has been at the university since 2019 and previously served as the administrative coordinator for the WashU Climate Change Program. She holds degrees in both Mathematics and Elementary […]
Kevin Hahn-Petruso
Program and Operations Manager
Kevin Hahn-Petruso is a program manager for the Center for the Environment where he supports cross-school collaboration among researchers, manages the Center’s communications as well as supporting the Center’s Internal Advisory Council and Council of Partners. Prior to joining WashU in 2022, he worked as the Policy Manager for Trailnet, a St. Louis-based sustainable transportation nonprofit, […]
Jonathan Losos
Director for Biodiversity
Professor of Biology, Director of the Living Earth Collaborative, William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor