Dr. Katherine Alfredo is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Dr. Alfredo’s research interests include drinking water quality and treatment, sustainable potable water provisions, US and international water quality regulation, and community support of drinking water technology.
Dr. Alfredo received her PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, was a U.S. Fulbright Fellow in Ghana from 2008 to 2009, and completed a short-term research position at the American Water Works Association policy division in Washington D.C. focusing on water quality compliance and policy. At the Columbia Earth Institute, she worked on a variety of projects ranging from understanding the water rates structure in the United States, linking agricultural water usage with long term water quality issues in developing countries, and defluoridation evaluation and monitoring in India. Upon return from her recent Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Scholar tenure in India, Dr. Alfredo held a research position at DC Water, analyzing water quality changes due to point of use filters installed in school water systems.