Faculty

Diogo Bolster
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2007

Environmental fluid dynamics (analytical, experimental and laboratory): transport and reactive flows in heterogeneous porous media; multiphase flows in porous media (related to CO2 sequestration); buoyancy driven flows; mixing; sustainable building ventilation; contaminant transport in low energy ventilated spaces; risk analysis; vortex rings.

Peter Burns
Henry J. Massman Professor
Ph.D. University of Manitoba, Canada, 1994

Environmental mineralogy; mineralogy and crystallography; mineral crystal structures and crystal chemistry; mineral structural energetics; mineral paragenesis; nuclear waste disposal

Jeremy Fein
Professor and Director of the Center for Environmental Science and Technology
Ph.D. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1989

Geomicrobiology; Aqueous environmental geochemistry; Experimental studies of the effects of bacteria on water-rock interactions; Application of chemical thermodynamics to model bacteria-water-rock systems; Metal-organic complexation studies of environmental and geological interest.
Bacteria co-exist with minerals in near-surface geologic systems. We are investigating not only how bacteria influence mineralization, but also their influence on mineral dissolution and contaminant adsorption and transport in the subsurface. We use a range of approaches, from wet chemistry experiments to x-ray absorption spectroscopy to molecular dynamics modeling.

Harindra Joseph S. Fernando
Wayne and Diana Murdy Professor
Ph. D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1983

Fluid mechanics; specifically turbulence in homogeneous, stratified, and rotating flows; double-diffusive phenomena; multiphase flows; oceanic and atmospheric flows, especially boundary layers and transport processes; industrial fluid mechanics; energy storage and extraction, urban air pollution; sustainability engineering, remote sensing.

Alan F. Hamlet

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2006

Surface water hydrology; hydroclimatology and hydrologic extremes; hydrologic modeling; water resources planning and management; impacts of climate variability and climate change on hydrology, water resources, the built environment, and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; renewable energy systems.

Ahsan Kareem
Robert M. Moran Professor
Ph.D. University of Colorado, 1978

Aerodynamics; wind effects; fluid-structure interactions; Boundary layer, gust front and hurricane winds; turbulence stochastic simulation; computational wind engineering; wave-structure interactions; natural hazards; liquid sloshing; wind energy.

Andrew B. Kennedy
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Monash University, Australia, 1998

Coastal engineering; theoretical, computational and experimental techniques for nearshore waves, currents, and storm surge; coastal geomorphology; development and use of remote sensing techniques in the coastal zone.

Elizabeth Kerr
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2008

Civil engineering materials, Effects of fire on concrete, Rehabilitation of concrete structures.

Kapil Khandelwal
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Structural Engineering, University of Michigan, 2008

Progressive collapse of building systems; investigation of robustness of infrastructural facilities, like bridges and buildings under extreme loading conditions such as impact and blast; constitutive modeling of material behavior at multiple scales; probabilistic vulnerability functions estimation, life cycle and sustainability analysis of infrastructural systems.

Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa
Leo E and Patti Ruth Linbeck Collegiate Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2003

Advanced sensing for civil infrastructure assessment, citizen engineering/virtual organizations/cyber-collaboratories, performance of tall buildings, natural hazard assessment and mitigation, engineering empowering development. 

Yahya Kurama
Professor
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, 1997

Concrete Structures; steel/concrete hybrid and composite stuctures; earthquake engineering and structural dynamics.

Dae Kun Kwon
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., KAIST Korea, 2001

Structural/Wind engineering, Structural dynamics & random vibrations, Wind effects on structures and their applications in codes and standards, Extreme winds and their modeling/simulation: hurricane, thunderstorm/downbursts, Wind tunnel experiment : bridge/building aerodynamics, wind-resistant design, Evaluation/Mitigation of wind-induced motion on structures, Full-scale measurement and structural health monitoring of structures, Web-based on-line processing/analysis/design on civil engineering, Fusion of information technology and civil engineering.

Iossif Lozovatsky
Research Professor
Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1975

Physical oceanography; oceanic turbulence, microstructure, fine structure; nonlinear internal waves; ocean and coastal ocean boundary layers; air-sea interaction and corresponding mixing in the oceanic upper turbulent layer; nonlinear internal waves and turbulence in shallow marginal seas; turbulence closure for stratified flows using field data and laboratory experiments.

Patricia Maurice
Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, California, 1994

Field and laboratory based studies of mineral-water interface geochemistry; organic and microbial interactions with mineral surfaces; geochemistry of humic substances; soil chemistry; chemical weathering; hydrology and biogeochemistry of freshwater wetlands; remediation of metal contamination; global climate change.

Chongzheng Na
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Michigan, 2005

Nanomaterials for environmental remediation and energy production; mechanism of Nanoscale process and nanomaterial behavior; scanning prove microscopy.

Clive Neal
Professor
Ph.D. University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 1986

Environmental effects of heavy metal pollution; petrogenesis of Large Igneous Provinces; ICP-MS analytical techniques; evolution of the Moon; evolution of Mars; geochemical and environmental consequences of plate interactions; origin of the Solar System.

Robert Nerenberg
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. Northwestern University, Illinois, 2003

Environmental biotechnology, molecular tools; biofilm processes; biological drinking water treatment; wastewater treatment/reuse; membrane processes; bioremediation.

Joshua Shrout
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa, Iowa, 2002

Bacterial biofilms; environmental engineering; sociomicrobiology of bacteria in engineered systems and public health; genetics and physiology of bacterial communities; bacterial surface motility; and bioremediation.

Antonio Simonetti
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Carleton University, Canada, 1994

Development of analytical protocols for isotope measurements involving either solution mode- and/or laser ablation- multi-collection inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICP-MS); Geochemical and radiogenic isotope investigations of alkaline rocks/carbonatites and mantle samples; long-range tracing of atmospheric pollution; strontium isotope studies of teeth from burial sites of Archaeological interest.

Stefanie Simonetti
Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 2002

Combined geochemical, petrological and radiogenic isotope investigation of igneous and mantle-derived rocks and their constituent minerals using both ICP-MS and laser ablation-MC-ICP-MS instrumentation.

Brian J. Smith
Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2013

Concrete structures, Innovative structural systems, Earthquake engineering, Retrofit and rehabilitation of existing buildings

Alexandros Taflanidis
Associate Professor
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2008

Modeling uncertainty; robust analysis and design of high-performance systems; reliability-based design, life-cycle cost optimization and structural control and health monitoring; protection of base-isolated structures from near-fault earthquakes; applications of mass dampers to offshore platforms; reliability-based optimization of controlled systems; design of a grid of oscillating buoys for wave-energy harvesting; risk evaluation for hurricane inundation.

Ashley Thrall
Cardinal John O'Hara Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 2011 

Kinetic structures for disaster relief; Linkage-based movable bridge forms; Case studies in major works of structural art.

Sergey I. Voropayev
Research Professor
Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, 1980

Oceanography; fluid mechanics; experimental and theoretical dynamics and interactions of vortex structures in stratified/rotating fluids; analytical solutions for basic structures (dipoles, quadrupoles, their combinations); mathematical and numerical models of vortex structure interactions and experimental verification; applications to geophysical turbulence, oceanic vortex structures, mixing and transport phenomena in stratified/rotating flows, and jet and wake dynamics.

Joannes J. Westerink
Joseph and Nona Ahearn Endowed Professor in Computational Science and Engineering
Professor and Henry J. Massman Chairman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Concurrent Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Concurrent Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984

Computational fluid mechanics; finite element methods; modeling of circulation and transport in coastal seas and oceans; tidal hydrodynamics; hurricane storm surge prediction; geophysical turbulence modeling; numerical modeling of the convection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations; environmental fluid mechanics.

Damrongsak Wirasaet
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2007

Computational fluid mechanics; numerical modeling of the convection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations; discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods; modeling of circulation and transport in coastal seas and oceans.