Ariel Furst

Ariel Furst is a 2022 & 2023 Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) principal investigator at MIT, where she is the Raymond (1921) & Helen St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering. Ariel's J-WAFS-funded projects include an exploration of how to remove dangerous chemicals from the environment, which was supported by a 2022 Seed Grant, and a monitoring system for environmental pesticides. In 2023, Ariel received a second J-WAFS Seed Grant for her project Nanoscale  materials for removal of "forever chemicals". Her lab combines biological, chemical and materials engineering to solve challenges in human health and environmental sustainability.

Ariel received a Bachelor's of Science in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2010 and a PhD from CalTech in 2015. She was an AO Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Professor Matthew Francis at UC, Berkeley developing sensors to monitor environmental pollutants.