Micala Mitchek

Senior Research and Development Engineer
Arq Incorporated

Micala Mitchek is a Senior Research and Development Engineer at Arq Incorporated. Micala has over eight years of experience in new activated carbon product design and field application development. Micala applies a strong fundamental scientific understanding to tuning activated carbon products to selectively remove specific environmental contaminants with emphasis on PFAS, coal combustion residual inorganics, total organic carbon, and taste and odor molecules. She specializes in applying her experience to accelerate the new product development process from concept formulation, fundamental investigations, and prototype development to full-scale customer demonstration and acceptance. Micala received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Colorado State University and her master’s degree in environmental engineering science from the Colorado School of Mines.