M. Patricia Fabián leads the Sustainable Built Environment Lab, and is an Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Health and Associate Director at the Institute for Global Sustainability. She grew up in Torreón, Mexico, and studied Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). She obtained an MS in Environmental Engineering at University of Colorado working with Prof. Mark Hernandez, studying ultraviolet light inactivation rates of aerosolized tuberculosis bacteria surrogates, and measuring bioaerosols in flooded homes. She worked as an indoor air quality consultant in Chicago before obtaining a doctorate in Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), developing methods to collect virus aerosols from the environment and exhaled breath with Prof. Donald Milton. After completing postdoctoral work on mask efficiency at University of Massachusetts with Prof. Donald Milton, and in systems science and pediatric asthma with Prof. Jonathan Levy at HSPH and BUSPH, she joined the faculty at BUSPH. Hobbies: Girl Scouts, reading, traveling.
