Dr. Nerenberg obtained his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1990. He worked as an environmental engineering consultant for eight years, and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2003. After a brief postdoctoral position at Northwestern University, he joined the department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame in 2004. In 2010, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research on biofilm processes. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Paul Busch award from the Water Environment Research Foundation.