Damien Marie Savino, FSE, currently serves as the Melchor Visiting Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame, with a concurrent appointment in the McGrath Institute for Church Life. She holds a doctorate in civil and environmental engineering from The Catholic University of America. She also holds master's degrees in theology and in soil science, as well as an undergraduate degree in biogeography from McGill University. Sister Damien Marie has lectured and written widely both nationally and internationally in the areas of ecology and theology, science and faith, and ecological resilience.