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  • James Alleman

    James Alleman

    Teaching Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Development, application, and assessment of sustainable environmental engineering technologies

  • Andrew Bartolini

    Andrew Bartolini

    Director, First-Year Engineering Program

    Associate Teaching Professor; Concurrent Associate Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  • Melissa Berke

    Melissa Berke

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Molecular paleoclimatology; paleoenvironmental change; biogeochemistry; paleolimnology; paleooceanography

  • Kyle Bibby

    Kyle Bibby

    Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

    Associate Department Chair


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Microbiology relevant to water quality and public health; detection of human pathogenic viruses in the environment

  • Professor Diogo Bolster

    Diogo Bolster

    Frank M. Freimann Professor of Hydrology and Henry Massman Department Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Environmental fluid dynamics, transport and reactive flows in heterogeneous porous media, multiphase flow in porous…

  • Patrick Brewick

    Patrick Brewick

    Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    System identification; structural health monitoring; Bayesian model calibration; structural dynamics; condition…

  • Professor Peter Burns

    Peter C. Burns

    Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Environmental minerology, minerology and crystallography, mineral crystal structures and crystal chemistry, mineral…

  • Albert Cerrone

    Albert Cerrone

    Assistant Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Lifing technologies, computational mechanics, Digital Twin, additive manufacturing, biomechanics

  • Professor Paola Crippa

    Paola Crippa

    Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Air quality and aerosol dynamics modeling, climate change, environmental and computational sustainability…

  • Patricia Culligan

    Patricia J. Culligan

    Matthew H. McCloskey Dean, College of Engineering

    Professor of Civil Engineering


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Water resources and environmental engineering; sustainable urban infrastructure, social networks, and the application…

  • Professor Kyle Doudrick

    Kyle Doudrick

    Rooney Family Collegiate Professor of Environmental Engineering

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Physical-chemical environmental processes; water quality and treatment; emerging contaminants

  • Luis B. Fargier-Gabaldón

    Luis Fargier-Gabaldón

    Associate Professor of the Practice


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Bridge engineering, design and construction of dams, infrastructure financing, earthquake engineering, and retrofitting…

  • Professor Jeremy Fein

    Jeremy Fein

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Geomicrobiology, aqueous environmental geochemistry, application of chemical thermodynamics to model…

  • Professor Harindra Fernando

    Harindra Joseph Fernando

    Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Environmental and industrial flows, atmospheric and oceanic research, mine countermeasures, wind energy, containment…

  • Annelise Gill-Wiehl

    Annelise Gill-Wiehl

    Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Sustainable energy transitions; health and climate impacts of energy; energy policy; carbon market; affordability…

  • Emily Grubert

    Emily Grubert

    Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy

    Concurrent Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Macro energy systems; socioenvironmental assessment; multicriteria decision systems

  • Professor Alan Hamlet

    Alan Hamlet

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Surface water hydrology, hydroclimatology and hydrologic extremes, hydrologic modeling, water resources planning and…

  • Xu Han

    Xu Han

    Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

    Concurrent Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  • Amy Hixon

    Amy Hixon

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Actinide (geo)chemistry, actinide materials, nuclear forensics, nuclear fuel cycle

  • Ming Hu

    Ming Hu

    Associate Professor of Architecture

    Concurrent Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Environmental engineering, net-zero impact, healthy building design, life cycle environmental impacts, energy modeling…

  • Wenying Ji

    Wenying Ji

    Henry Massman Collegiate Professor of Construction Management

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Advanced data analytics, system simulation in construction management

  • Professor Ahsan Kareem

    Ahsan Kareem

    Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering

    Director, NatHaz Modeling Laboratory


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Structural dynamics; structural engineering; wind effects on structures; stochastic systems, risk and reliability…

  • Professor Andrew Kennedy

    Andrew Kennedy

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Coastal engineering, experimental techniques for nearshore waves, coastal geomorphology, remote sensing techniques in…

  • Professor Kapil Khandelwal

    Kapil Khandelwal

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Structural/Solid mechanics, computational mechanics, topology optimization, machine learning and data sciences

  • Professor Yazen Khasawneh

    Yazen Khasawneh

    Associate Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Computational geotechnics; soil-structure interaction; structural and soil response to dynamic loading; development of…

  • Tracy Kijewski-Correa

    Tracy Kijewski-Correa

    Frank M. Freimann Professor of Structural Engineering and Hazard Resilience

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Keough School of Global Affairs; William J. Pulte Director, Pulte Institute for Global Development; Academic Director, Integration Lab (i-Lab)


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Disaster risk reduction; resilient and sustainable communities; post-disaster reconnaissance

  • Professor Gino Kurama

    Yahya C. Kurama

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Concrete structures, steel-concrete hybrid and composite structures, earthquake engineering and structural dynamics

  • Patricia Maurice

    Professor Emerita, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    water-rock interactions; aqueous geochemistry; hydrogeology; wetlands; nanogeology; atomic-force microscopy; surface…

  • Wade McGillis

    Wade McGillis

    Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Ocean, estuary, and river ecosystems; water quality and acidification

  • Professor Clive Neal

    Clive Neal

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Origin and evolution of the Moon and igneous provinces ("supervolcanoes"); space exploration

  • Professor Rob Nerenburg

    Robert Nerenberg

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Biofilms, especially membrane-biofilm reactors (MBfRs) and membrane biofouling

  • Professor David Richter

    David Richter

    Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Fluid mechanics, multiphase environmental flows, turbulence in the atmosphere and ocean, particle-laden turbulence…

  • A professional portrait of Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE, a woman with short brown hair wearing glasses and a black habit. She is smiling, with a blurred indoor background featuring warm lighting and architectural details.

    Sr. Damien Marie Savino, FSE

    Melchor Visiting Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Catholic Social Teaching, environment, theology and science, ecology and theology, ecological restoration, resilience…

  • Joshua Shrout

    Joshua Shrout

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Bacterial biofilms, environmental engineering, socio-microbiology of bacteria in engineered systems and public health…

  • Professor Stefanie Simonetti

    Stefanie Simonetti

    Associate Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Geochemical, petrological and radiogenic isotope investigation of mantle-derived rocks and minerals

  • Professor Antonio Simonetti

    Antonio Simonetti

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

    CEEES Director of Inclusive Excellence and Engagement


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Analytical protocols for isotope measurements; geochemical and radiogenic isotope investigations of rocks; long-range…

  • Brian Smith

    Brian Smith

    Massman Beavers Collegiate Professor in Heavy Civil Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Innovative structural systems, earthquake engineering, engineering education, innovative course models

  • Kirstin Sockwell

    Kirstin Sockwell

    Assistant Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Actinide chemistry, nuclear fuel cycle, separation science, photocatalytic and radiolytic degradation

  • Professor Alexandro

    Alexandros Taflanidis

    Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

    CEEES Director of Graduate Studies


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Computational statistics; uncertainty quantification; natural hazard risk assessment; disaster risk reduction…

  • Professor Ashley Thrall

    Ashley Thrall

    Myron and Rosemary Noble Collegiate Professor of Structural Engineering

    Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Behavior, design and optimization of kinetic civil infrastructure such as bridges, shelters, and buildings including…

  • Kevin Walsh

    Kevin Walsh

    Associate Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

    Director, Master of Engineering (MEng)


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Sustainable and resilient infrastructure, pultruded fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) structural framing, inventory and…

  • Professor Brad Weldon

    Brad Weldon

    Henry J. Massman Collegiate Professor in Civil Engineering

    CEEES Director of Undergraduate Studies


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Concrete structures, bridges, statics, solid mechanics

  • Joannes Westerink

    Joannes Westerink

    Joseph and Nona Ahearn Professor in Computational Science and Engineering


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, modeling of circulation and transport in coastal seas and oceans…

  • Damrongsak Wirasaet

    Associate Research Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences


    Research Areas/Interests:

    Computational fluid mechanics; Numerical modeling of the convection-diffusion and Navier-Stokes equations…