Brittany Perrotta
Ph.D. candidate, Biology
Brittany joined the lab in Fall 2015, leaving an oil and gas position as a Process Improvement Specialist optimizing the manufacturing processes of drill pipe through Lean and Six Sigma. Brittany is currently focused on the effects of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles on food webs. Brittany was heavily involved with a wetland mesocosm study at Duke University where she focused on the effects of environmentally realistic nanoparticle concentrations crossed with nutrient enrichment on aquatic insect emergence, consumer-mediated nutrient recycling (snail excretion rates), and other contributions to overall study (e.g., she coauthored papers published in Ecological Applications and ES&T, both in 2018).