He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1996. He then proceeded to work for Eastern Research Group Inc., an environmental consulting company, where he was involved in both regulation development and exposure/release assessments. Timothy Brenza then obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2008. Prior to his current position, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Iowa and in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University.