Speaker: Dr. Fuhar Dixit, post-doc at UC Berkeley
Date and Time: September 22, 2025| 12 – 1 p.m. PT
Location: CHBE 202
Dr. Dixit will talk about his academic journey, his experience in the CHBE program, his career in academia and his recent participation in the Nobel Laureate meetings.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Dixit is currently a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, where he manages the Department of Defense funded projects focused on cleaning up sites contaminated with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), also known as “forever chemicals.” These pollutants are found at military and airport sites across North America and are extremely difficult to measure with current analytical methods. His work focuses on understanding how these chemicals are transported in the environment and improving detection techniques to identify difficult to measure forms of PFAS.
In January 2026, Dr. Dixit will be joining the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an Assistant Professor in the Precision Health Engineering (PHE) cluster. His research will combine chemical and environmental engineering with AI, mathematics, medicine, nursing and public health to address challenges affecting humans and the environment.