Briana McDowell

Affiliation

Columbia Technologies

Biography

Dr. McDowell is a Microbiologist, Project Manager, and Account Manager at Columbia Technologies. She attained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022, and her B.S. in Biochemistry from Suffolk University in 2015. Her doctoral research involved site investigations and treatability studies in assessing remediation strategies for contaminated sites, as well as the defluorination of CFCs and fluorinated alkanes. During her tenure at Columbia Technologies, she has managed over 30 high resolution site characterization projects, and has been the Lead Scientist on and remedial design characterization of a chemical plant in South Africa.