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xii About the Contributors

Dr. Rose has been involved in research on the environmental impact of
nanotechnology since at least 2001 and is one of the inventors of the fer-
roxane nanoparticles.

Heather J. Shipley is a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University working on
arsenic adsorption with iron oxide nanoparticles. She also has done
research with the Brine Chemistry Consortium at Rice University on iron
sulfides and inhibitor adsorption. Previously, she conducted research with
the Hazardous Substance Research Center South/Southwest on the resus-
pension of sediments to predict the amount of metals that can become
available. Ms. Shipley holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from Baylor
University, Waco, Texas. and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from
Rice University.

Dicksen Tanzil, Ph.D., is a sustainability specialist at Golder
Associates Inc. He received his doctorate from Rice University and B.S.
from Purdue University, both in chemical engineering. His work focuses
on the assessment of environmental and social impacts of industrial
operations, and the incorporation of sustainability considerations in
engineering design and business decision-making. He is co-editor of the
book Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action: The Chemical
Industry, published in 2005.

Dr. Antoine Thill is a researcher at the Commissariat de l’Energy
Atomique in Saclay (Paris) where he is in charge of the Ultra Small Angle
X-ray Scattering facility at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire sur
l’Organisation Nanométrique et Supramoléculaire in the Department of
Material Science. He holds a doctorate in Geosciences and Engineering
from the University of Aix-Marseille III where he studied the aggregation
of natural suspended matter in estuaries and developed methods to char-
acterize particle size and agglomeration states by light scattering and con-
focal microscopy. His work addresses the structure and dynamics of
nanoparticles in complex samples through an intensive use of scattering
techniques as well as a consideration of properties of these particles as
they affect bacterial toxicity of CeO and other nanoparticles.
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Joanne I. Yeh, Ph.D., obtained her Ph.D. in 1994 from the Chemistry
Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied
macromolecular X-ray crystallography as a NSF predoctoral fellow under
the supervision of Professor Sung-Hou Kim. Dr. Yeh was a NIH post doc-
toral fellow with Professor Wim G.J. Hol at the University of
Washington/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, studying through struc-
tural characterization soluble and membrane proteins involved in oxida-
tive and glycerol metabolism pathways.