Panther Alumni Week Spotlight: Silvina A. Di Pietro graduated from Florida International University in the Fall of 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate pursuing a doctoral degree in environmental chemistry. She is a Department of Energy (DOE) Fellow and at Applied Research Center (ARC). At ARC, she is currently assisting in development of ammonia gas injection for uranium remediation at the DOE Hanford Site in Washington State. Her dissertation project is titled Uranium Fate and Mineral Transformations upon Remediation with Ammonia Gas. The ammonia injection remediation technique has the potential to treat and sequester uranium, the major contaminant of concern released in the vadose zone at the Hanford Site.
Silvina A. Di Pietro
As an undergraduate at FIU, she was part of the Honors College, which allowed her to graduate with honors. In the summer of 2011, she participated in the Honors College research-service study abroad program to the Peruvian Amazon. She was a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry Club, Photography Club, and Italian Club. She worked as a Chemistry Learning assistant for two semesters, tutoring general chemistry to fellow FIU students. In her undergraduate research, she worked at the Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory doing research on total mercury and its content in U.S. commercial rice.
Her professional interests include soil and water chemistry, geochemistry, climate change, and remediation of contaminated areas. Her hobbies are traveling, dancing, playing tennis, and painting.
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- Silvina A. Di Pietro
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- Silvina Di Pietro, working at an FIU Engineering Laboratory.
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- Silvina Di Pietro, at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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- Silvina Di Pietro speaking to forensic chemist and Provost Dr. Furton. FIU Emerge 2017.
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- Silvina Di Pietro with FIU President Dr. Rosenberg
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- Silvina Di Pietro presenting at eMerge
