Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of New Mexico
Bio:
Tybur Casuse-Driovínto is a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Intermountain West Transformation Network in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Co-op at The University of New Mexico (UNM). They have an educational background in environmental engineering and electrochemistry from UNM which was focused on water quality. They spent a year in the local government of Albuquerque after their PhD working on a cumulative impacts map for the county. After exposure to this work Tybur’s research interests grew into developing place-based approaches, methods, and collaborations for mapping disproportionate impacts from environmental injustices and climate change.
Tybur’s PhD in Engineering, MS in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, and BS in Chemical Engineering are all from UNM. Tybur was awarded a fellowship in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship during their MS which took them into their PhD. During their PhD, Tybur spent 10 months as a visiting research scholar in Alicante, Spain in the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic.
