Vanesssa Maldonado


Vanessa Maldonado is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science at Michigan State University (MSU). She got her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnic National School, in Ecuador. As an advocate of environmental remediation, she is currently working on various projects related to PFAS water remediation including electrochemical oxidation of PFAS-impacted landfill leachates and plasma destruction of PFAS adsorbed to activated carbon. This work is being developed at the Fraunhofer Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies (CCD) at MSU.

Contact Information: vmaldonado@fraunhofer.org; 517-802-8492