Chris Olivares, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
University of California-Irvine

Dr. 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, such as impacts of fires to water quality and PFAS biotransformation and data science tools to support monitoring efforts. He has been a member of the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC) PFAS team, where he developed training materials on transformation and translation of fact sheets to Spanish. Chris obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and M.A. in French at the University of Arizona.