Kristin is an environmental engineer and microbiologist at Exponent, Inc. where she specializes in biodegradation and the fate of chemicals in the environment. She focuses on emerging contaminants, chlorinated solvents, in-situ bioremediation, and analytical chemistry. During her Ph.D. work, Kristin studied the degradation of the flame retardants polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) by aerobic and anaerobic bacteria and delineated the degradation pathways and determined the conditions necessary for these biological processes to occur.