Matt Bentley is a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) specialist focused on advancing research and practice for field impact in humanitarian and development WASH. He specializes in water quality and emergency WASH interventions appropriate for improving public and environmental health in response to global crises.Currently Matt works as a WASH Technical Advisor in USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, where he contributes to global emergency WASH policy, strategy, and programs. Matt has work and volunteer experience in WASH technical support, project management, research, refugee resettlement, and international development and relief in East and Central Africa and Southeast Asia.Beyond fieldwork and program support, Matt has worked on research projects focused on developing new methods for identifying and reducing human exposure to toxic organic chemicals in global developing communities, a topic which has been historically neglected in the WASH Sector. He has also taught WASH and environmental engineering coursework at the undergraduate and graduate level.Matt received his Doctorate in Environmental Engineering for Developing Communities from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studied appropriate water treatment technologies for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and for treatment of domestic drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater, and landfill leachate. Specifically, Matt's doctoral research focused on biochar, a low-cost alternative to activated carbon, for the removal of toxic organic contaminants from drinking water sources, and his research was funded through the NSF GK-12 and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship programs.When he is not in the field, classroom, or lab, you are most likely to find him rock climbing Boulder's Flatirons, backpacking a remote trail, or enjoying a quality cup of coffee.