Dr. Rebecca Stiles is a senior chemist in the Air Protection Technologies Center of Innovation at Nalco Company in Naperville, IL. She has been working at Nalco since August 2008. Rebecca earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Union College (Schenectady, NY) in 2003 and her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with Prof. Royce W. Murray in 2007. Prior to joining Nalco, Rebecca was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University with Prof. Richard P. Van Duyne. Her work at Nalco has been focused on mitigating pollution from coal-fired power plants, specifically focused on mercury and carbon dioxide emissions. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and is expecting her first child in April.