Lydia Lichtiger

EWL 2026 Mentee

Lydia Lichtiger is an environmental health PhD student at Boston University. She earned a Master of Science in environmental health from New York University. She was a graduate research assistant at NYU, where she assessed the sensitive windows of exposure to fine particulate matter in relation to autism-like traits in the Upstate KIDS Study. 

Research Interests: Air pollution, brain development, and underlying mechanisms