Matthew Verbyla is currently a postdoctoral scientific collaborator at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and he will start a position as an assistant professor of environmental engineering at San Diego State University in California in August 2017. He has a bachelor of science in civil engineering (2006) from Lafayette College, and a master of science in environmental engineering (2012) and a PhD in environmental engineering (2015) both from the University of South Florida. His research and teaching activities address sustainable development challenges at the intersection of food-energy-water systems and public health. Specifically, he is interested in the microbiology of wastewater and the study of water pathogens and the microbial risk of water reuse and resource recovery.