company’s rapid microbial detection technology, its diverse applications in air and water monitoring, and in supporting end users in its implementation. She is actively involved in an industry work group focused on increasing the knowledge, use and acceptance of bio-fluorescent particle detection technologies like the IMD system, and has co-authored a number of technical articles and posters on the subject. She has over four years of additional biologic detector experience gained through work on an infrared-based sensor for use in the detection of microbes in water supplies. She earned her joint doctorate in materials science and engineering from the University of Arizona and in materials chemistry from the University of Rennes.