Funded Researchers
Ariel Furst
- Raymond (1921) & Helen St. Laurent Career Development Professor
- Department of Chemical Engineering
Ariel L. Furst is the Cook Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Her lab combines biological, chemical, and materials engineering to solve challenges in human health and environmental sustainability. She is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, the recipient of a 2022 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, and the Army Research Office Early Career Award. She is passionate about STEM outreach and increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in engineering.
J-WAFS-funded projects
- Nanoscale materials for removal of “forever chemicals”
- Enzymatic biomaterials for PFAS degradation
- Engineered microbial cocultures to detect and degrade organophosphates
Publications
- Perspective—electrochemical sensors for neurotransmitters and psychiatrics: steps toward physiological mental health monitoring
- Surface requirements for optimal biosensing with disposable gold electrodes
- A microbial electrochemical technology to detect and degrade organophosphate pesticides
News
- Several J-WAFS PIs work to boost crop resilience in the face of climate change
- MIT Industrial Liaison Program interviews J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst
- J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst shares her research in a short film
- Students present food and agriculture startups at delta v Demo Day
- J-WAFS PI devises an efficient way to convert CO2 to CO
- J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst creates coating to protect bacteria for sustainable microbial fertilizer
- J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst one of two from MIT to receive a 2023 National Institutes of Health award
- J-WAFS announces 2023 seed grant recipients
- PFAS - A pressing problem plaguing water
- Malden Catholic High School students spend time in the lab of J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst
- Ariel Furst named 2024 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
- Encouraging women faculty at MIT to pursue entrepreneurship in biotech
- MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces inaugural MCSC seed award recipients
- J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients
- J-WAFS PI improving agriculture with chemical engineering
- J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst and colleagues created a coating for microbes that can be used in agricultural applications
- J-WAFS PI Ariel Furst selected as a finalist for the 2021 Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition