Department of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering Risk Modeling

Biography

Kate is an MS student in Biosystems Engineering and a dual PhD student in Biosystems Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy (ESP). She completed her BS in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University in 2024. She has been in the Risk Modeling lab since 2021 and has been a TA for Dr. Jade Mitchell’s Human Health Risk for Engineering Controls (BE 449) class since 2023. She is currently an active member of Graduate Women in Science (GWIS), the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), and the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) Graduate Student Advisory Group (GSAG). Kate is also a current trainee for the WaterCube NRT working in the intersection of data science, water science, and social science.

Research

Kate’s research interests include human health risk, chemical risk analysis, and quantitative microbial risk analysis (QMRA) primarily in water science. She is currently working on the development of a risk-based framework for prioritizion of contaminants in drinking water. She has also previously worked on the QMRA IV Institute project, and the water accessibility, training enhancement and research in Africa Network project.