Lauren N. Pincus, PhD

My research interests broadly focus on the interactions between contaminants and engineered and natural surfaces.

I am an NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular Environmental Geochemistry Group at Princeton University's Department of Geosciences researching interactions between micro/nanoplastics and inorganic pollutants. I was previously awarded a Harry H. Hess Postdoctoral Fellowship for this research. 

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I am originally from Montclair, New Jersey and completed my bachelor's degree with a double major in chemistry and geology at Middlebury College.

I graduated with my PhD in May, 2020 from the Yale School of the Environment, a member of the Zimmerman Lab and the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. My dissertation focused on the design of novel selective and multifunctional biomaterial adsorbents for oxyanion removal from drinking water.

Prior to Yale, I spent a year as a researcher with Dartmouth's Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program conducting research on the environmental fate of mercury at a Superfund site in Northern New Hampshire.