Linda M. Abriola is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.  She joined Brown in January 2021 from her position as University Professor and Director of Tufts University Institute of the Environment. From 2003 to 2015, she served as the inaugural dean of the Tufts University School of Engineering.  Prior to joining Tufts, she was the Horace Williams King Collegiate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan.  An expert in the multiphase transport, fate, and recovery/destruction of contaminants in the subsurface, Professor Abriola is the author of more than 160 refereed publications.  She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Ground Water Association’s Distinguished Darcy Lectureship (1996), the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Project of the Year Award in Remediation (2006, 2012), and appointment as a U.S. Science Envoy (2016).

Dr. Abriola received her Ph.D. and M.S degrees from Princeton University and a B.S. degree from Drexel University, all in Civil Engineering.