Jillian Goldfarb
Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Jillian Goldfarb’s research tackles issues surrounding energy generation and its environmental impact and is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Proctor & Gamble Corporate Sustainability Program. These interest areas include: (1) mitigating the environmental impacts of energy-derived pollutants via improved understanding of contaminant behavior, (2) developing new materials to reduce waste and remediate or retard the spread of contaminants, and (3) investigating economically viable and industrially scalable alternative energy sources.
Goldfarb has received an American Chemical Society (ACS) Leadership Development Award and an NIEHS Superfund Research Program Fellowship. She is an Executive Board member of the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry and President of the New England Institute of Chemists.
With a grant from the IOC, Goldfarb seeks solutions to reduce the energy required to manage municipal solid waste (MSW) and leachate landfills and develop new ways and materials to slow the spread of contaminants.