{"id":50,"date":"2020-08-28T22:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:57:50","slug":"experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aug 2025 to Present<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Professor,<\/strong> Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aug 2020 to July 2025<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Associate Professor,<\/strong> Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 2017 to Aug 2020<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Associate Professor,<\/strong> Department of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 2018 to June 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Fulbright Scholar<\/strong> -Sub-Saharan Africa, Department of Geomatics and Land Management, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 2011 to Aug 2017<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Assistant Professor,<\/strong> Department of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 2014 to Present<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Director, <\/strong>Environmental Toxicology Program, Department of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 2013 to Aug 2016&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Visiting Summer Faculty,<\/strong> Oak   Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 2009 to Sept 2011&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Research Scientist<\/strong>, Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 2004 to June 2009<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Postdoctoral faculty<\/strong>, Department of Geology, Bowling Green State  University, Bowling Green, OH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 2025 to Present\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL. Aug 2020 to July 2025\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL. Sept 2017 to Aug 2020&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Associate Professor, Department &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/experience\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3257,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/mbalajib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}