About the Job:Professors William Arnold and Sebastian Behrens are seeking a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering. The person would take the lead on a project co-supervised by Profs. Behrens and Arnold to evaluate microbial degradation of fluorinated pesticides and pharmaceuticals to identify which chemical structures are mineralized to fluoride and which lead to formation of persistent fluorinated byproducts. The key tasks will be to run biodegradation experiments with activated sludge and soil microbial communities to assess degradation kinetics, identify and quantify fluoride and fluorinated organic byproducts using NMR and mass spectrometry, identify the organisms responsible for degradation, and quantify microbi