Erika Houtz

Erika Houtz

Director of Contaminant Destruction Technologies, ECT2

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Biography

Dr. Houtz has over thirteen years of academic and professional experience investigating the environmental impacts of PFAS. She has extensive experience in developing analytical and experimental methods for the measurement of PFAS in environmental and human samples, including developing the total oxidizable precursor (TOP) assay. She has authored multiple peer reviewed publications on the fate and transport of PFAS in natural and engineered systems. Since joining ECT2 in 2021, she has been engaged in the evaluation and development of treatment and destruction technologies that can be incorporated into ECT2 treatment systems. Erika earned her Ph.D. and MS degrees in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and her BS in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University.