After receiving her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Hamilton College in 2007, Dr. Gilbertson was a secondary school teacher for several years. She earned her PhD in environmental engineering from Yale University in 2014 with support from a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an EPA STAR Fellowship and remained at Yale as a postdoctoral associate prior to starting at Pitt. Dr. Gilbertson's research aims to inform sustainable design of emerging materials and products to ensure the safe realization of novel technologies.