Dean C. Andrew Ramsburg

C. Andrew Ramsburg earned both his PhD and MS degrees in environmental engineering, as well as his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the Associate Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, having joined Tufts in 2004. He has served as Chair of the School of Engineering Curriculum Committee since 2019.

His research aims to improve environmental quality through understanding, modeling, and harnessing transport and reaction processes occurring in multiphase systems. Often the overall goal in these projects is the development or improvement of technologies employed to characterize, manage, or treat organic contaminants in the environment. Areas of application include emulsion transport and delivery in porous media, fate of emerging contaminants in biological treatment units, biotransformation and microorganism transport, and DNAPL source zone characterization and remediation. Specific areas of expertise include multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, and biotransformations.