Ana Cristina Morales

Ana Morales is a 5th year graduate student at Purdue University working with Prof. Alexander Laskin. She got her B.S. in 2017 from Towson University in Towson, Maryland where she studied the optical properties of urban aerosols. Prior to attending Purdue University, she worked in the nutrient cycles lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland as a biological sciences technician. At SERC, she quantitatively investigated how different stream restorations affected nutrient cycling in their respective ecosystems. Her current research at Purdue University focuses on the chemical composition and physical properties of directly emitted environmental nanoplastics produced during a procedure called Cured-In-Place-Plastic (CIPP) pipe installations.