Elizabeth is the primary author and coauthor of more than 50 oral, poster presentations, conference proceedings and publications; which include a book chapter, peer-review manuscripts, a patent application, and a science policy paper. She has worked at top academic institutions: Harvard Medical School, UW-Madison, Georgia Institute of Technology, and government institutions: DOE Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Oakridge Natl. Lab., the National Science Foundation, API and the U.S. Congress. Today, she is the recipient of more than 30 awards including an NSF IGERT Fellowship and the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). International awards includes: Best Poster, Shizouka, Japan; (2) Research Project Winner Birmingham, UK; (3) Paper Competition Winner at the International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments. As part of her dissertation she assigned function to a gene involved in the detoxification of 1,2-dichloropropane a potential carcinogen. Her efforts have been recognized by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, NASA, the Congressional Hispanic Institute (CHCI), the American Society for Microbiology, the American Geophysical Union, P.R. Ford Foundation, Hispanic Business Inc., Jet Blue Foundation, 1 Million Woman in STEM, among others.