Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Jeseth Delgado Vela joined Duke University as an Assistant Professor in August 2023. Her work focuses on leveraging environmental biotechnology to improve urban water infrastructure. She integrates molecular tools and modeling to understand how microbial community interactions and dynamics affect engineered water treatment systems. Dr. Delgado Vela earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering and M.S. at the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Duke, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Howard University. She was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Award (2016), was named an Early Career Research Fellow by the Gulf Research Program (2022), and was awarded an NSF CAREER Award (2022).
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Appointments and Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact Information
- Office Location: 121 Hudson Hall, Durham, NC 27708
- Email Address: jeseth.delgadovela@duke.edu
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Education
- B.S. University of Texas, Austin, 2012
- M.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2014
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2018
- Howard University, 2023
Research Interests
Biofilms in the urban water cycle, nitrogen cycling microbial communities, public health surveillance via wastewater, and microbial communication in biofilms
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- National Science Foundation CAREER Awards - CBET. National Science Foundation (NSF). 2022
Courses Taught
- CEE 701: Graduate Colloquium
- CEE 692: Independent Study: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 690: Advanced Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CEE 562L: Applied Biological Principles and Processes in Environmental Engineering
- CEE 462L: Applied Biological Principles and Processes in Environmental Engineering