Dr. Yoshiko Fujita is a distinguished staff scientist in the Biological & Chemical Processing Department at the Idaho National Laboratory.  She is the lead for the Driving Reuse & Recycling Focus Area within DOE’s Critical Materials Institute. She has served as a principal investigator on multiple projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Offices of Science, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, and Fossil Energy, in the areas of subsurface contaminant fate and transport, critical materials, and geothermal energy. Her primary research interests are in the areas of metal-microbe biogeochemistry and water quality, with an emphasis on fundamental studies supporting the development of practical applications and approaches for implementation. Most of her work has been characterized by interdisciplinary collaborations, at scales ranging from the molecular to the field.

​Biogeochemistry in subsurface environments and water quality