Chris Olivares

Assistant Professor
University of California-Irvine

Chris Olivares is an Assistant Professor at the University of California-Irvine in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Associate Director of UCI's Water-Energy Nexus Center. His research focuses on interactions between organic contaminants and microbial processes, impacts of fires to water quality and PFAS biotransformation. Chris obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and M.A. in French at the University of Arizona.