Perlie Velasco is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of the Philippines – Los Baños (DCE, UPLB). She is the lead faculty in Environmental Engineering at the department with research projects in constructed wetlands and integrated solid waste management. She got her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at UPLB and master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD degree in Environmental Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia, with research on the recovery of dissolved methane from wastewater effluent.