Professor
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan
Dr. Rupali Datta is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University (MTU) located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She has a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the University of Hyderabad, India. She did her post-doctoral studies at the University of Niigata in Japan, the University of Florida at Gainesville, and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She joined UTSA as an Assistant Professor in 2004 and was recruited as an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at MTU as a part of the Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative in Sustainability in Spring 2009. She directs the Environmental Biology Laboratory at the Department of Biological Sciences at MTU. Dr. Datta has more than 20 years of research experience in Plant Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences and was instrumental in developing active phytoremediation research programs at UTSA and MTU. She has authored/co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and generated more than six million dollars in grant funding primarily for developing green remediation technologies and investigating the mechanisms of hyperaccumulation and tolerance of trace metals and organics by plants.
Sustainable Technologies to Mitigate Health Risk from Lead-Contaminated Residential Soils
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM