Professor Peter Jaffé is interested in the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment, and their application towards the remediation of contaminated systems. His current research emphasizes PFAS biodegradation. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and was a faculty member at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela before coming to Princeton in 1985. He was Chair of Princeton’s department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1999 to 2005. Prof. Jaffé was the Associate Director for Research of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University from 2013 to 2019. He holds concurrent appointments at Princeton University with the High Meadows Environmental Institute, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the Omen-Darling Bioengineering Institute, and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials. He is also a member of the NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Sciences at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, at Rutgers. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the American Society of Civil Engineers.