Dr. Maria Fernanda Campa is a Staff Scientist (Contractor) at the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO). In this role, she leverages her expertise as a technical advisor to the Director and Deputy Director in topics at the intersection of nanotechnology and climate, water, and medicine. She also established and leads the inaugural National Nanotechnology Challenge, Nano4EARTH, and the federal water nanotechnologies community of interest, and the NNCO education, outreach, and workforce efforts reaching thousands of students and educators every year. Campa is an interdisciplinary scientist with a passion for protecting environmental and public health through scientific innovation and transdisciplinary collaboration. Campa received her Ph.D. in Energy Science and Engineering under a joint fellowship program between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and her B.S. in Engineering Science - Nanomedicine from the University of Virginia.