Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. She is also a member of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Dr. Rivera-Núñez holds a bachelor’s degree in microbiology and a master’s degree in environmental health sciences from the University of Puerto Rico. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. She completed a National Academies post-doctoral fellowship at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment. Dr. Rivera-Núñez’s research focuses on the utility of biomarkers identifying windows of exposure and susceptibility, the impact of these chemicals in fetal and child growth, and the endocrine and placental mechanisms behind these associations.