Maite DiLorenzo

Dr. Maite DiLorenzo is a Postdoctoral Fellow Scientist in the Center for Exposure and Health at RTI International. Her research focuses on investigating how airborne pollutant exposure impacts human and environmental microbiomes.

At RTI, Dr. DiLorenzo supports research projects and proposals aimed at applying microbiology in aerosol science to understand inhalation exposures and associated adverse health outcomes. She also develops bioinformatic analysis pipelines in R/RStudio for several projects.

As a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow alumna and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology alumna, Dr. DiLorenzo performed comprehensive research to assess the impacts of external stressors on the bacterial communities associated with both organisms (e.g., corals, mice, humans) and environments (e.g., seawater, aerosols). Additionally, Dr. DiLorenzo has applied microbiology techniques to investigate the presence of emerging bacterial pathogens for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She has also conducted microbiological analyses, from collection to bioinformatics, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).