Prof. Jessica R Ray (she/her/hers)

Professor Jessica Ray (she/her) is the Robert and Irene Sylvester professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Ray received her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. Upon graduation, Ray remained at Washington University in St. Louis to obtain a M.S. degree (2010, funded by the NSF GK-12 Graduate Research Fellowship) and a Ph.D. in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering (2015, funded by the EPA STAR Fellowship). During her Ph.D., Ray employed surface chemistry techniques to investigate interfacial reactions of nanomaterials in water. Ray then moved to California as a Miller Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow and ReNUWIt Engineering Research Center member at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. At the University of Washington, Ray develops composite materials for selective contaminant removal and degradation in waste streams.