A-Andrew (Andrew) D. Jones, III is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering. He is affiliated with the Duke Materials Initiative and co-PI of the NIH NIEHS-funded Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health Program. He is senior personnel on an NSF-funded Precision Microbiome Engineering Research Center where among other studies, he is investigating the interactions of building materials with microbes found after Hurricane Helene. He is an affiliate faculty at the NSF-Simons National Institute for Theoretical & Mathematical Biology. He studies biofilm physicochemical dynamics using modeling/scaling analysis and design/engineering to solve global challenges related to water and health. He received the NIH R35 Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award to develop new models and tools for studying biofilms. He was recognized by the 2018 Young Investigator Award from the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State, the premier center for biofilm research in the country. He and his team have presented at over 60 conferences and seminars. Patent pending work from his lab is optioned as one of the newest biofilm tools in 20 years. He has supervised 2 high school students, over 20 undergraduates, 5 MS, 6 PhD, and 2 post-doctoral trainees including 8 from underrepresented backgrounds and 19 women. He was recognized as the 2023 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor of the Year at Duke. He received a BS in Mathematics and BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he was a Lemelson Presidential Fellow studying microbial fuel cells.