Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen is the Vice Provost for Academic Planning Fred and Claire Sauer Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 and is a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Alma materHarvard University (BS)
Stanford University (MS, PhD)
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Engineering (2010)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisCometabolic Biotransformation of Trichloroethylene and Chloroform by Methanotrophs: Experimental Studies and Modeling of Toxicity and Sorption Effects (1991)
Doctoral advisorPerry McCarty

Early life and education

Alvarez-Cohen studied engineering and applied science at Harvard University and graduated in 1984.[1] She was a postgraduate student at Stanford University, where she earned her master's degree in 1985 and a PhD in 1991.[2]

Research and career

Alvarez-Cohen works in environmental microbiology and ecology.[3] She joined the faculty at University of California, Berkeley in 1991, and was the first woman to achieve tenure in Berkeley's Civil & Environmental Engineering Department.[4] She is interested in species that can perform environmentally relevant functions, including studies of biotransformation and the fate of environmental water contaminants.[5] Alvarez-Cohen uses omics based molecular tools to optimise bioremediation.[5] Amongst other contaminants, Alvarez-Cohen's lab have studied the remediation of trichloroethene, aqueous film forming foams and arsenic:

Academic service

In 2007 Alvarez-Cohen became Chair for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a position she held until 2012.[4][6] She has served as the Diversity Director of the Stanford University Engineering Research Center and elected Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.[7][8] She was appointed the Vice Provost for Academic Planning in July 2018.[6][9]

Alvarez-Cohen has appeared on NPR and served on the editorial advisory board of Environmental Science & Technology.[10][11] She has represented the United States at the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering in India, Arlington County, Virginia and Irvine, California.[12]

Selected publications
  • Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa (1991-01-01). "Effects of toxicity, aeration, and reductant supply on trichloroethylene transformation by a mixed methanotrophic culture". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 57 (1): 228–235. doi:10.1128/AEM.57.1.228-235.1991. PMC 182690. PMID 2036009.
  • Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa (2004-06-06). "N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) as a Drinking Water Contaminant: A Review". Environmental Engineering Science. 20 (5): 389–404. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.184.204. doi:10.1089/109287503768335896.
  • Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa (2009). Environmental Engineering Science. Wiley. ISBN 9788126524501.

Awards and honours

Personal life

Alvarez-Cohen is married to Mike Dean Alvarez Cohen, with whom she has two children, Jason and Ryan.[17]

gollark: i.e. generic slices/maps/channels but not actual generics, == being ***maaaaagic*** (admittedly like in most languages, I think), and `make`/`new`.
gollark: Also, as well as that, how it just special-cases stuff instead of implementing reusable solutions.
gollark: e.g. no map function existing or even being possible means that you have *readable* code with a for loop, but it's harder to understand *why that's there* and *what it's for*.
gollark: The main problem I have with it is that it conflates readability (you can see what the code is doing at a low level) with comprehensibility (you know what and why it's doing at a higher one).
gollark: Are you being serious?

References
  1. "Alvarez-Cohen named vice provost at UC Berkeley". www.seas.harvard.edu. 2018-06-22. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  2. "Emerging Contaminants Summit - Lisa Alvarez-Cohen". www.contaminantssummit.com. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  3. "LAlvarez-Cohen | Department of Plant & Microbial Biology | UC Berkeley". plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  4. Staff, Jan Schuermann | (2018-06-20). "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen appointed as vice provost for academic planning". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  5. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  6. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen appointed Vice Provost for Academic Planning | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  7. "erc.html". stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  8. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen to Chair Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  9. "Vice Provost Lisa Alvarez-Cohen: Biography | Division of Academic Planning". vpap.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  10. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen". Source of the Week. 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  11. "Biographies | Women in Engineering | San Jose State University". www.sjsu.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  12. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen". www.naefrontiers.org. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  13. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  14. "Professor Lisa Alvarez-Cohen". NAE Website. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  15. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen Receives ASCE Environmental Engineering Award | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  16. "Lisa Alvarez-Cohen selected as a 2018 AEESP Fellow | Civil and Environmental Engineering". www.ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  17. "Full Biography for Mike Alvarez Cohen". www.smartvoter.org. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
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