COL Matthew P. Baideme

COL Matt Baideme is an Engineer Officer who has served in command and staff positions in combat mechanized, Echelon Above Brigade (EAB), and Brigade Engineer Battalion (BEB) engineer formations, with duty in the 1st Armored Division, 555th Engineer Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry). COL Baideme’s most recent assignment was as the Commander of 41st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York. His graduate research took a fundamental approach to defining the role and enrichment of mixed microbial communities in novel engineered biological nitrogen removal processes through the investigation of microbial structure, function, and metabolic pathways using next-generation sequencing and combined metagenomic and metatranscriptomic methods. Specifically, his research addressed the application of a novel short-cut biological nitrogen removal process integrating alternative methods for nitrite production from pre-nitrified process streams into downstream, resource-efficient, anammox-based processes.