Dr. Natalie Mladenov

Dr. Natalie Mladenov is an associate professor and the William E. Leonhard Jr. Chair in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU). Dr. Mladenov is the Director of the Water Innovation and Reuse Lab at SDSU, which trains and mentors students from diverse groups to take on environmental challenges in water scarce environments and conduct research on sustainable water and sanitation technologies. Dr. Mladenov's research investigates the transformation and persistence of emerging chemicals in decentralized water reuse systems, sources of anthropogenic contaminants in urban rivers, water quality response to stream restoration, transport of microplastics in the environment, and fluorescence-based sensors for tracking of organic contaminants in source waters, streams, and groundwater.