Miriam Diamond is professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, with cross appointments to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the School of the Environment, and the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto. She founded the Diamond Environmental Research Group, whose aim is to develop defensive strategies to improve the environmental quality in systems subject to anthropogenically elevated contaminant inputs. Her research uses mathematical modeling, analytical chemistry, lab studies, field studies, and information management. Miriam’s main research focus is on semi-volatile organic compounds such as persistent organic pollutants in indoor and outdoor urban environments. An ecologist and mining and environmental engineer, she wrote her PhD on “Modelling the fate and transport of arsenic and other inorganic chemicals in lakes” (1990). In 2007, Canadian Geographic magazine named her Canadian Environmental Scientist of the Year.